jploftsocial

<p><a href="https://#" rel="nofollow ugc">Check-Mail-SMTP</a> plugin allows you to configure a mail server which handles all outgoing email from your website. It takes control of the wp_mail function and use SMTP instead.You can<br />
take record also.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>A self-hosted website running on [WordPress hosting]</li>
</ul>
<h3>SMTP Mailer Settings</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>SMTP Host</strong>: Your outgoing mail server (e.g. smtp.gmail.com).</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Authentication</strong>: Whether to use SMTP authentication when sending an email (True/False). If you choose to authenticate you will also need to provide your username and password.</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Username</strong>: The username to connect to your SMTP server.</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Password</strong>: The password to connect to your SMTP server.</li>
<li><strong>Type of Encryption</strong>: The encryption to be used when sending an email (TLS/SSL/No Encryption. TLS is recommended).</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Port</strong>: The port to be used when sending an email (587/465/25). If you choose TLS the port should be set to 587. For SSL use port 465 instead.</li>
<li><strong>From Email Address</strong>: The email address to be used as the From Address when sending an email.</li>
<li><strong>From Name</strong>: The name to be used as the From Name when sending an email.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Check-Mail-SMTP Test Email</h3>
<p>Once you have configured the settings you can send a test email to check the functionality of the plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>To</strong>: Email address of the recipient.</li>
<li><strong>Subject</strong>: Subject of the email.</li>
<li><strong>Message</strong>: Email body.</li>
</ul>


Check-Mail-SMTP

Configure a SMTP server to send email from your WordPress site. Configure the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of the PHP mail() function.

David Cramer

<p>Caldera SMTP Mailer is not groundbreaking in any way. There are many SMTP plugins around some good some not so good. This is just to take away all the mystery with a to-the-point solution for configuring wp_mail ( and in turn phpmailer ) to send through SMTP over standard phpmail.</p>


Caldera SMTP Mailer

Just what I needed to test on my local machine where php_mailer fails

Check-Mail-SMTP vs Caldera SMTP Mailer