Pierre Lannoy

Hosterra

Automatically archive all emails sent from your site. Store them in your WordPress database or send them to external services.
MailArchiver is a tool that allows you to:
<ul>
<li>catch emails sent by WordPress itself or plugins;</li>
<li>enrich them with details regarding their sending;</li>
<li>archive them in the WordPress database and/or send them to external services for logging and alerting;</li>
<li>view (and filter) archived emails in the WordPress database.</li>
</ul>
It supports multisite archive delegation (see FAQ) and contains many features to help to protect personal information (user pseudonymization, IP obfuscation, etc.).
At this time, MailArchiver can archive emails:
<ul>
<li>to its internal archiving storage and viewer;</li>
<li>to local or network storage (with file rotation);</li>
<li>to Imap servers, like GMail, Gandi, OVH or Outlook.Com;</li>
<li>to external storage services, like Elasticsearch, Elastic Cloud, Loki or Grafana Cloud;</li>
<li>to external alerting services, like Pushover or Slack;</li>
<li>to external testing & previewing services, like Litmus, MailerCheck or Email on Acid;</li>
<li>to external logging services, like Logentries / insightOps or Loggly;</li>
<li>to system loggers, like Syslog or Fluentd.</li>
</ul>
For a full list of supported – internal or third-party – services please, jump to the official <a href="https://perfops.one/mailarchiver#services" rel="nofollow ugc">supported services list</a>.
MailArchiver supports an extensive set of WP-CLI commands to:
<ul>
<li>decrypt a previously encrypted mail body – see <code>wp help m-archive decrypt</code> for details;</li>
<li>toggle on/off main settings – see <code>wp help m-archive settings</code> for details;</li>
<li>manage archivers (list, start, pause, clean, purge, remove, add and set) – see <code>wp help m-archive archiver</code> for details;</li>
<li>view available archiver types (list and describe) – see <code>wp help m-archive type</code> for details.</li>
</ul>
For a full help on WP-CLI commands in MailArchiver, please <a href="https://perfops.one/mailarchiver-wpcli" rel="nofollow ugc">read this guide</a>.
<blockquote>
MailArchiver is part of <a href="https://perfops.one/" rel="nofollow ugc">PerfOps One</a>, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance.
</blockquote>
MailArchiver is a free and open source plugin for WordPress. It integrates many other free and open source works (as-is or modified). Please, see ‘about’ tab in the plugin settings to see the details.
<h4>Support</h4>
This plugin is free and provided without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any improper use of this plugin, nor for any damage it might cause to your site. Always backup all your data before installing a new plugin.
Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Please read carefully the FAQ at the bottom of this page before requesting support.
<h4>Privacy</h4>
This plugin, as any piece of software, is neither compliant nor non-compliant with privacy laws and regulations. It is your responsibility to use it – by activating the corresponding options or services – with respect for the personal data of your users and applicable laws.
This plugin doesn’t set any cookie in the user’s browser.
This plugin may handle personally identifiable information (PII). If the GDPR or CCPA or similar regulation applies to your case, you must use the anonymization options embedded in the plugin and/or adapt your processes (consent management, security measure, treatment register, etc.).
<h4>Donation</h4>
If you like this plugin or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to <a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en" rel="nofollow ugc">La Quadrature Du Net</a> or the <a href="https://www.eff.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> which are advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!

MailArchiver

This plugin is the perfect solution for testing emails sent by WordPress or plugins like WooCommerce & co within a localhost environment.
For composer users, should be in every require-dev!

A must-have to analyze all emails sent from your site


Really easy to use plugin. We're often using it at the Polylang Pro helpdesk to check in which language a mail is sent, for example.


Easy to use - perfect to debug

Automatically archive all emails sent from your site. Store them in your WordPress database or send them to external services.

Mustaneer Abdullah

Hassan Ali ⚡️

Coresol Studio

Daniyal Hassan

SendLog is a comprehensive email activity logging plugin for WordPress that captures every outgoing email sent by your site. Whether you need to debug delivery issues, audit communication, or monitor email health — this plugin does it all, completely free.
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Complete Email Logging — Captures To, Subject, Message, Headers (From, CC, BCC, Reply-To), Attachments, IP address, timestamp, delivery status, error messages, and source plugin/theme.</li>
<li>Trash & Restore — Move logs to trash before permanently deleting, just like WordPress posts. Includes empty trash and restore functionality.</li>
<li>Resend Emails — Resend any logged email with one click, or edit before resending.</li>
<li>Forward Emails — Automatically forward copies of all outgoing emails to specified addresses with exclusion patterns.</li>
<li>Export Logs — Export selected or all logs as CSV with customizable column selection.</li>
<li>Auto-Delete — Automatically clean up old logs via daily WP-Cron with configurable retention.</li>
<li>Email Monitor — Daily heartbeat test email with admin notice if delivery fails.</li>
<li>Webhook Notifications — Get notified when emails are sent or fail via Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or any generic webhook URL. Configurable triggers (All Emails / Failed Only) and optional forwarded email inclusion.</li>
<li>REST API — Full REST API with endpoints for logs, stats, and resend functionality.</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget — At-a-glance email stats on the WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Multisite Support — Per-site log tables with network activation support.</li>
<li>HTML Test Email — Send a beautifully formatted HTML test email to verify delivery and test the log viewer.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Admin Interface</h4>
<ul>
<li>Modern List Table — Sortable, filterable email logs with all columns (Sent at, Status, To, Subject, From, CC, BCC, Reply To, Attachment, IP Address, Source) — all toggleable via Screen Options.</li>
<li>Screen Options — Toggleable columns and configurable entries per page.</li>
<li>Email Detail Modal — View full email content with HTML/Text tab toggle, delivery details, and headers.</li>
<li>Tools Dashboard — Statistics overview with cards showing Total, Sent, Failed, Forwarded, Today, and Active Webhooks counts.</li>
<li>Tabbed Settings — Clean, organized settings with info tooltips explaining each option.</li>
<li>Date Picker — jQuery UI datepicker with clean custom styling for date-based search and filtering.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Debug email delivery issues</li>
<li>Audit emails sent by plugins (WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, etc.)</li>
<li>Monitor transactional email health</li>
<li>Keep records for compliance</li>
<li>Resend failed or lost emails</li>
<li>Get instant alerts via Slack/Discord/Teams when emails fail</li>
<li>Forward all site emails to an archive mailbox</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin can optionally connect to external webhook services to send notifications when emails are sent or fail. This feature is disabled by default and must be explicitly configured by the site administrator.
<h4>Webhook Notifications (optional, user-configured)</h4>
When you enable webhook notifications in Settings > Webhooks, the plugin sends HTTP POST requests to the webhook URL(s) you provide. The data sent includes: email subject, recipient, status (sent/failed), error message (if failed), and timestamp.
Supported services:
<ul>
<li>Slack — <a href="https://slack.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://slack.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>Discord — <a href="https://discord.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://discord.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>Microsoft Teams — <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>Generic Webhook — Any custom URL you configure. You are responsible for ensuring compliance with the receiving service’s terms.</li>
</ul>
No data is sent to any external service unless you explicitly configure a webhook URL and enable it. No analytics, telemetry, tracking, or other external calls are made by this plugin.

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