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<p>Send an email when a page is loaded or accessed. You can customize the email by using URL parameters. A simple sample URL could look like https://yourserver.com/yourpage/?mail=1&mailto=recipient</p>
<p>You can use a couple of parameters like mailto, first name, last name, subject, etc.<br />
**Use case **</p>
<ul>
<li>Send a confirmation mail to your user / visitor when he is redirected from an external page (like webshop, payment service, digistore, etc.)</li>
<li>Get an email when a special page is accessed or visited</li>
</ul>
<h4>How do I use this plugin?</h4>
<p>Configure recipient, subject, and body and add the <em>shortcode [url-emailer]</em> to your page. Access your page with the URL parameter <em>?mail=1</em> to send the email.<br />
For a full description of all parameters please read our documentation/manual.</p>
<h3>Docs & Support</h3>
<p><a href="https://trader-tools.net/url-emailer-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Manual</a></p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-emailer" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a></p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>German: Deutsch – immer dabei!</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Note:</em> All my plugins are localized and translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful.</p>
<h3>Do you like this plugin?</h3>
<p>I spend a lot of time to develop and maintain my free WordPress plugins. If you like this plugin then please do me a favor and <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-emailer/reviews" rel="ugc">give it a good rating</a>. Thanks.</p>


URL Emailer – Send emails by URL parameters

With URL Emailer you can easily and quickly send emails when a web page is accessed or loaded. With the help of various URL parameters such as recipie …

Viktor Szépe

<p>Using SMTP protocol to transfer emails ensures solid operations.<br />
It is very easy to set up SMTP. You can find the settings for this plugin at the bottom of WordPress admin menu Options / General.</p>
<p>You should get your SMTP settings from your ISP, hosting provider, webmaster, email provider etc.</p>
<p>Using every option SMTP URI formally looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT
</code></pre>
<p>Thus encryption type and <code>://</code> and user name and <code>:</code> and password and <code>@</code> and mail server name and <code>:</code> and port number.<br />
All except encryption type and mail server (host name) are optional.</p>
<p>SMTP encryption types are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>For encrypted connection (STARTTLS on submission port) start your SMTP URI with <code>smtpTLS://</code> – the default port is 587.</li>
<li>For fully SSL encrypted connection (SMTPS) start it with <code>smtps://</code> – the default port is 465.</li>
<li>For unencrypted connection (plain SMTP) start it with <code>smtp://</code> – the default port is 25. This is <strong>not recommended</strong> for non-local servers.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>WARNING!</strong> Use <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/" rel="nofollow ugc">URL-encoded</a> strings.</p>
<p>You can find the settings for this plugin at the bottom of WordPress admin Options / General.</p>
<p>You may define your SMTP URI also in <code>wp-config.php</code>:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'SMTP_URI', 'smtpTLS://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT' );
</code></pre>
<p>To set <code>From:</code> name and <code>From:</code> address use<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mailfrom-ii/" rel="ugc">WP Mail From II plugin</a>.</p>
<h4>SMTP error logging</h4>
<p>SMTP communication errors are logged in PHP error.log and – if<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/" rel="ugc">Sucuri Scanner</a><br />
plugin is available – are sent to Sucuri and can be viewed in its Alert Logs panel.</p>
<h4>Adding automatic Bcc: address</h4>
<p>An automatic Bcc: address can be set by adding path to SMTP URI: <code>/admin_email</code>.</p>
<h4>SMTP debugging</h4>
<p>Add query string to SMTP URI: <code>?debug</code>.</p>
<p>Debug level can be set by adding a value: <code>?debug=4</code>, possible values: 0,1,2,4</p>
<h4>TODO</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to skip newsletters: ALO Newsletter, Newsletter, Mailpoet.</li>
<li>Video on installing and setting up this plugin.</li>
<li>Remove <code>smtp_uri</code> option on uninstallation (I hope you won’t uninstall it)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage examples</h4>
<p>Unauthenticated local SMTP server on port 25</p>
<pre><code>smtp://localhost
</code></pre>
<p>Unauthenticated local SMTP server on submission port</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://localhost
</code></pre>
<p>Authenticated connection to localhost on port 25</p>
<pre><code>smtp://john.doe:Secretpwd1@localhost
</code></pre>
<p>“@” sign in the username, a Gmail example</p>
<pre><code>smtps://your.address%40gmail.com:Gmail_password@smtp.gmail.com
</code></pre>
<p>Sendgrid example</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://CREDENTIAL-USERNAME:PASSWORD@smtp.sendgrid.net
</code></pre>
<p>Mandrill example</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://REGISTERED%40EMAIL:API-KEY@smtp.mandrillapp.com
</code></pre>
<p>Unauthenticated SMTP server on a custom port</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://mail.server.net:2525
</code></pre>
<p>Development goes on on <a href="https://github.com/szepeviktor/smtp-uri" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


SMTP URI and logging

SMTP settings for WordPress and error logging.

URL Emailer – Send emails by URL parameters vs SMTP URI and logging