I am not techy, but I have built my own website using WordPress, via BlueHost as the hosting platform. I followed the Astra theme for my website. Everything works fine and the website is ready to go live apart from the contact form. When I test it, the message does not come through to my linked email address (Outlook email address). I am using WP forms for the contact form and I have downloaded the WP Mail SMTP plug-in as advised in an article I read. The notification emails are all set correctly to the email where I want to received etc. The exact error message I am receiving is "SMTP connect() failed", I have also had messages about authentication when trying to resolve this. I contacted Blue Host chat support, but they were not very helpful. Can anyone help?
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I have an e-commerce website who's mail is generated using web mail on C-panel. When I started developing my site I have put dummy email i.e: "mywebsitename#admin.com" and then connect my outlook using my web mail. I have used that webmail on all the forms across the website. Now that I have completed my site and changed my dummy email to my webmail generated mail, after doing that all my previous emails that I have received are gone missing. Is it due to changing of email on WordPress or is there any other problem because of which my mails disappear from my outlook. Kindly help.
I have a client with a Wordpress website. The contact form stopped sending, so I found a plugin called Mail Integration for Office 365/Outlook that could use his MS365 email to send all email from the website using that account.
I installed the plugin and followed the instructions to create an Azure AD App Registration and configure the plugin with the appropriate data from the App Registration. I tried submitting the contact form and there were no errors on the page (it gave me a success message), but the email never arrived in my inbox (yes, I checked spam). I installed a different form plugin, WP Forms, and put it on a test page. The call to admin-ajax appears to be going through successfully, receiving json with success and a confirmation message (which it outputs to the page).
So I searched the plugin's support forum where the creator mentioned using the plugin Check & Log Email to test that the emails are sending. I installed/activated the plugin and sent a test email. It shows it as sent successfully. It never arrived in my inbox (yes, I checked spam).
I have checked the error logs and didn't see anything helpful.
To fix the issue, I first need to find it:
Do I need to complete additional configuration that I've just missed?
How do I find out if the plugin can even connect to the App Registration? It doesn't have a Test Connection feature, which it clearly needs. The reviews on the plugin page are all positive and recent, so it's working for other people.
How do I troubleshoot this from the Azure Active Directory side to make sure it's receiving data?
Please help! Thanks.
I am trying to set up emails on my WordPress website using the WP Mail SMTP plugin and the Gmail API. (WordPress version 5.5.1; WP Mail SMTP Version 2.4.0)
The website I am trying to set this up on, https://souheganvalleychorus.org/ is part of a GSuite for non-profits domain.
I have followed the WP Mail SMTP setup instructions on:
https://wpmailsmtp.com/docs/how-to-set-up-the-gmail-mailer-in-wp-mail-smtp/
with meticulous care. However, when I get to the final step, where I click on the WP Mail SMTP plugin's setup page, and click on "Allow plugin to send emails using your Google account", get prompted with some dialog boxes, choose the email address that I used to set up the Gmail API, it finally comes back with a webpage that says simply:
Unauthorized
Back {a link}
the URL for this page is:
https://souheganvalleychorus.org/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-mail-smtp&tab=auth&code=4/4AEw2mlaJPMgOg7boWHzLLDIJdg0Gwb98vGyJfrteQXcOE5cnL1HMj5wX6QSRZQ0x2rhrbxlzqKPBsF7uokdWCg&scope=https://mail.google.com/
I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out what is happening, and what I can do to fix it. The 'Unauthorized' provides absolutely no additional information.
I have previously set up the WP Mail SMTP plugin to use the Gmail API, on another website (also a GSuite for non-profits domain, but a different one), and succeeded in that case. I seem to recall having had some problems setting that one up, too, but don't remember how I resolved the issue. When you do something (especially with such an arcane interface as the Google API interface) once in a blue moon, you tend to forget the details. I have tried to compare the two Gmail API setups, and can find no difference that would explain the failure in the current case.
I sure would appreciate anyone's help in resolving this. Until I do, I can't send email from the website. I've also tried using WP Mail SMTP's "Other SMTP" option, with the Gmail SMTP credentials, but that fails to authorize, so I'm stuck...
Help! (and thanks!)
I'm trying to send the message using the contact form on local-host. However, I'm able to send it to my mail address, but it goes to the spam folder!
I used the SendGrid plugin and integrate it with the Contact form 7.
Expected: Message send to the main folder in Gmail address.
Actual Result: Message goes to the spam folder.
You can use GMAIL SMTP Plugin. You need to just install the plugin and then get a GMAIL API and SECRET KEY. Put that into your plugin.
for more check this post with video.
http://www.onlinemoneyidea.cf/2019/06/gmail-smtp.html
Experiencing issue with WP plugin, contact form 7. When I fill in the form and submit, I receive a success message stating it was sent yet I don't receive it in my emails.
The mail is not in my junk and I only received the message in my email when I input the email its being send to!?
The email it is going to is an exchange account. I can see the emails coming through using a contact form submission on the WP backend. But would like to resolve this issue.
Form
[text* your-name placeholder "Name"]
[email* your-email placeholder "Email Address"]
[text* your-dob placeholder "DOB"]
<p>Which Challenge(s) would you like to enter?</p>
[checkbox* select-challenge "1" "2" "3"]
</br>
Please tick here that you have read and accepted the [popup_trigger
classes="popmake-food-challenge-tcs"]
<u>terms & conditions</u>[/popup_trigger] for entry & participation.
[acceptance acceptance-997]
[submit "Send"]
Mail
To: myname#company.com
From: Website
Subject: Challenge
Reply-To: [your-email]
From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Eating Challenge Registration
Name: [your-name]
Email: [your-email]
DOB: [your-dob]
Challenge(s): [select-challenge]
I also checked with website host that they use wp_mail() and was confirmed they do. As other contact forms send - bar this one.
Try setting the from: email address to wordpress#yourdomain.com. Contact Form 7 support recommends setting the from address as being on your own domain, so that the website's mailer program doesn't think it is spoofing the email being sent (sending it from an incorrect email address).
If that doesn't work, best to use a plugin like WP Mail SMTP Plugin.
I set it up to send contact form emails through our Gmail account, which worked well. Instructions here.
SMTP Plugins are a Band-aid Solution
The reason people use SMTP plugins is because they have not set up their own domains properly; so, they route their emails through their email hosting company under the expectation that THEIR domain is both set up properly and permissive enough to accept the email that needs to be forwarded. So, let's say your website is at example#mywebsite.com and your email is example#gmail.com, then you can use an SMTP plugin to send an email to gmail.com, and then gmail resends it on your behalf.
As you can see, this is a clunky work around, and does not actually fix the problem of not being able to send email from your website directly. There are a few use cases where this is a problem:
If you want to actually send the email from example#mywebsite.com and not expose your example#gmail.com address to the public.
If your email provider does not support SMTP.
Some anti-spam tools may block emails routed this way, because SMTP can be a sign of spoofing through a hacked account. This almost always leads to problems when using the Mail(2) feature to send confirmation emails to the client since you are pretty much guaranteed that some of them will use spam filters that will block it.
You may also need to send emails through other means (not contact form 7) that does not work with your SMTP plugin.
A Better Solution
The best way to fix deliverability issues to to set up your DKIM, SPF, and PTR records properly in your DNS.
If you are using cPanel as most hosting companies seem to do these days, you need to go to EMAIL > Email Deliverability and it will show you warnings if you need to update your DNS. If you do, just copy the records it auto generates into your Domain's DNS and this should fix the problem. Unlike trying to route through someone else's server to send emails, this will set up YOUR server to send them properly thus alleviating all of the above mentioned issues.
This is just as easy to set up as most SMTP plugins, and makes it so you don't have to clutter your WordPress install with unnecessary plugins.
If you do not have cPanel access, just contact your Domain Hosting provider and ask that they setup your DKIM, SPF, and PTR. If your Domain Hosting provider and your Web Hosting provider are two different companies, you may need to request the proper DNS records from your web hosting company to either put in your self or give to your domain hosting company.
when I have a problem about wp contact form I always solve that with using smtp plugin. I suggest you to use wp smtp mail plugin.
Easy SMTP WP plugin page on wordpress.org
If any problem after using smtp plugin, reply this post I will try to help you again.
I have this problem in my website.
Some hosting companies block automatic email sending, because some user uses the host for sending email marketing. So, I think you can contact your host provider to solve this problem.