Send email through your mail server (SMTP)
WordPress sends its emails through your mailbox’s SMTP server instead of the web server, so they arrive instead of landing in spam.
Before you switch it on: Add the four SNIPFIRE_SMTP_ lines to wp-config.php with your mailbox’s server, address, password and port.
It arrives switched off, even when you install its whole pack with "Switch on after installing".
<?php
// Put these lines in wp-config.php (not here), with your mailbox's details:
// define( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_HOST', 'smtp.example.com' );
// define( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_USER', 'hello@example.com' );
// define( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_PASS', 'your-password' );
// define( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_PORT', 465 ); // 465 = SSL, 587 = TLS
add_action(
'phpmailer_init',
static function ( $mailer ) {
if ( ! defined( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_HOST' ) || ! defined( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_USER' ) || ! defined( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_PASS' ) ) {
return;
}
$port = defined( 'SNIPFIRE_SMTP_PORT' ) ? (int) SNIPFIRE_SMTP_PORT : 465;
$mailer->isSMTP();
$mailer->Host = SNIPFIRE_SMTP_HOST;
$mailer->Port = $port;
$mailer->SMTPSecure = 465 === $port ? 'ssl' : 'tls';
$mailer->SMTPAuth = true;
$mailer->Username = SNIPFIRE_SMTP_USER;
$mailer->Password = SNIPFIRE_SMTP_PASS;
$mailer->setFrom( SNIPFIRE_SMTP_USER, wp_specialchars_decode( get_bloginfo( 'name' ), ENT_QUOTES ), false );
}
);
Good to know
The password stays in wp-config.php, not in the snippet. Until the lines are there, the snippet does nothing.
In these packs
- Email: Emails from your name and address, sent through SMTP, and fewer notification emails.