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WP Mail SMTP Plugin Installation [with Troubleshooting]

WP Mail SMTP • 31 Oct 2017

WP Mail SMPT will help you to send emails from your wordpress. Works well with Contact-Form-7 and it works flawlessly.

Go to the New Plugins page and search for WP Mail SMTP and make sure the author is WPForms. Install and activate the plugin.

WP Mail SMTP Plugin activation on the wp plugins page - image — **Figure 1**: Screenshot of the *Add plugin* page with **WP Mail SMTP** plugin **Installing**.

After activation Go to Settings > Email (This might be different if you have installed the current version)

WordPress Dashboard with settings sub-menu - image — **Figure 2**: Screenshot of selecting the **Email** *(WP Mail SMTP)* under the **Settings** of the WordPress Dashboard.

In the Advanced Email Options page, check Send all WordPress emails via SMTP and scroll down to the SMTP Options.

WP Mail SMTP Configuration page - image — **Figure 3**: Screenshot of **WP Mail SMTP Configuration page**

Gmail Configuration

Use the code below to fill in the details in the WP Mail SMTP page. If you are using GoDaddy, then you have to enter the email id you have created in the Godaddy and change the SMTP Host and Port no. to GoDaddy. Just Google it and you will find it.

SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port: 465
Encryption: Use SSL encryption
Authentication: Yes: Use SMTP authentication
Username: <your-gmail-id> <!-- required -->
Password: <your-gmail-password> <!-- required -->

WP Mail SMTP Configuration page with Gmail settings - image — **Figure 4**: Screenshot of **SMTP Options** in the *WP Mail SMTP Configuration* page

Testing

Enter a Email id in the ‘Send a Test Email’ To field. You have to enter a valid email id. This is for testing the mail configuration is working or not so it is not necessarily it should match the one you entered above in the SMTP Options.

WP Mail SMTP Configuration page with Test Mail section - image — **Figure 5**: Screenshot of **Send a Test Email** in the *WP Mail SMTP Configuration* page

After you click the Send Test button, you should get a message like this saying The result was: bool (true). Check your Email and you should get a test message from WP Mail SMTP.

WP Mail SMTP Test result page - image — **Figure 6**: Screenshot of the **Test Result** in the *WP Mail SMTP* page

Troubleshooting

Option 1

If you get false as a result, then double check your email id and its password for the Gmail configuration

Option 2

Try not to copy paste the email id and password, for some reason it throws an error. Try to enter it manually.

Option 3

For some reason Symbols and Ambiguous Characters as password doesn’t work. It throws a false result. Create a password with only Lowercase Characters, Uppercase Characters, Similar Characters and try.

5bQdnKxC works
K*#rxFL-8F doesn’t work

Option 4

If you are using Gmail host and port no. use Gmail mail id and password. For yahoo host and port, use Yahoo mail id and password. If you have a private mail id and password, then get the Host and Port details from themr (Example: GoDaddy, Rediff, Bluehost..). Also check the Encryption type.

If you came from Contact-Form-7 Go here Installing Contact-Form-7 – WordPress Plugin

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