WordPress website to send emails (configure SMTP)

Many friends use WordPress on a dedicated server or VPS to build a website, will find that their mailbox can not receive the site to send mail, whether it is notification of the registration of mail, comment notification mail, or to retrieve the password of the mail, can not be received, a can not be received.

Most of the reasons for not receiving emails is that WordPress is on a server that is not properly set up to send emails, and if you don't have a mail server set up, of course you won't be able to send emails. The solution is very simple, set up a SMTP service for the server or WordPress.

What is SMTP and what does it do?

SMTP full name is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the Chinese translation is "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", is the Internet transmission of Email is the de facto standard, simple and crude, SMTP is to send mail with. A server that supports sending emails using the SMTP protocol is called an SMTP server.

Most mailboxes support SMTP protocol, such as QQ mailbox, 163 mailbox, Gmail and so on. When using these SMTP servers, most of the servers need us to provide username and password for authentication, some mailboxes can directly use the password of the login web terminal as the SMTP password (such as 163 mailboxes), while some mailboxes need to set up a special SMTP password (such as QQ mailboxes) as the SMTP password.

Configuring the SMTP server using the plugin

The way to configure SMTP is very simple, install a SMTP plugin, set the sending e-mail address, SMTP server, SMTP password and you are done. We commonly used SMTP plugin is WP Mail SMTP by WPForms, it is easy to use, has been quite stable, we recommend friends who need to use.