Brandon Fowler

<p>Email Auth allows you to enable email authentication/validation for your WordPress site. Configure the DKIM selector, SPF, DMARC, bounce address, from address, and reply-to address of emails sent by WordPress through the default PHPMailer.</p>
<p>Configuring these email settings allows you to prevent attackers from spoofing emails from your domain and helps keep your emails out of the spam folder.</p>
<h4>DKIM Selector</h4>
<p>Create, upload, download, and delete private and public keys for use with DKIM with an intuitive interface. Configure emails to use a DKIM selector and configure which domain should be used with DKIM.</p>
<h4>SPF</h4>
<p>Create a new SPF record for your envelope domain, validate an existing record, or view recommendations for how to improve your SPF configuration.</p>
<h4>DMARC</h4>
<p>Validate your DMARC DNS record settings and view comments about your current configuration.</p>
<h4>Bounce Address</h4>
<p>Set your bounce address to ensure emails are being sent from the right domain to avoid having your emails rejected or marked as spam.</p>
<h4>From Address and Reply-To Address</h4>
<p>Set the address and name emails are sent from along with the address replies should be sent to.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to an online list from <a href="https://publicsuffix.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">publicsuffix.org</a> to determine which organizational domain should be searched when obtaining DMARC DNS records. For example, if the domain wordpress.brandonfowler.me does not have a DMARC record, then brandonfowler.me will be checked for a DMARC record. No user information is sent when requesting the list and its usage is subject to the <a href="https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mozilla Public License Version 2.0</a>.</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>Check out <a href="https://github.com/BrandonXLF/email-auth" rel="nofollow ugc">the GitHub repository</a> to learn more about how you can contribute to the plugin’s development.</p>


Email Auth – DKIM, SPF, DMARC, Bounce Address, From Address

Enable email authentication/validation for the default WordPress PHPMailer.

Noor Alam

<p><a href="https://wphowto.net/smtp-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress-1482" rel="nofollow ugc">SMTP Mailer</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.</p>
<h3>SMTP Mailer Add-ons</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wphowto.net/how-to-add-a-reply-to-address-in-the-smtp-mailer-wordpress-plugin-6997" rel="nofollow ugc">Reply-To</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wphowto.net/smtp-mailer-email-logger-7066" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Logger</a></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 Email when sending a test email.</li>
<li><strong>From Name</strong>: The name to be used as the From Name when sending a test email.</li>
<li><strong>Force From Name</strong>: The From name in the settings is set for all outgoing email messages.</li>
<li><strong>Force From Email</strong>: The From email in the settings is set for all outgoing email messages.</li>
<li><strong>Force From Address</strong>: The From address in the settings is set for all outgoing email messages.</li>
<li><strong>Disable SSL Certificate Verification</strong>: As of PHP 5.6 a warning/error is shown if the SSL certificate on the server is not properly configured. This option lets you disable that behaviour.</li>
</ul>
<h3>SMTP Mailer 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>
<h3>Known Compatibility</h3>
<p>SMTP Mailer should work with any plugin that uses the WordPress Mail function. However, It has been tested with the following form and contact form plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>Jetpack Contact Form</li>
<li>Visual Form Builder</li>
<li>Fast Secure Contact Form</li>
<li>Formidable Forms</li>
<li>Contact Form by BestWebSoft</li>
</ul>
<p>For detailed setup instructions please visit the <a href="https://wphowto.net/smtp-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress-1482" rel="nofollow ugc">SMTP Mailer</a> plugin page.</p>


SMTP Mailer

So i have tried configuring it two ways - with gmail and smtp from my own hosting, it doesn't work in both cases.

With gmail it hangs on password authentication according to log - the password IS correct, less secure apps is checked and critical login is confirmed. 

With my own smtp credentials - it supposedly sending test message, but it simply doesn't comply with CF7, there's an error while sending form and that's it.

It is lightweight, which i really like but what of it if plugin doesn't work even on native settings?

To dev:
- if you fix it, then i will change my review. Latest WP, only your plugin and CF7, PHP 7.3 and default Wordpress theme.

It simply doesn't work with CF7

A bloat-free plugin that just sends SMTP emails as advertised. Great job Developers.

Minimalistic, Does the job


This is THE plugin you need to send e-mails. Forget about WPForms, Easy WP SMTP (after their upgrade it got super-bloated) or others. You just need to send e-mails, and this is the plugin to do it. Easy and lightweight.


The #1 SMTP plugin today


In the world of WP plugins, it's easy to get bogged down by bloated, feature-rich options. This plugin is a refreshing departure from that trend. It's lean, mean, and focused on doing one thing exceptionally well: sending emails.


Best SMTP plugin

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.

Email Auth – DKIM, SPF, DMARC, Bounce Address, From Address vs SMTP Mailer