WordPress SMTP and delivery plugins: selection criteria and comparison
Compare features, licenses and deployment needs.
Source description: “Make email delivery easy for WordPress. Connect with SMTP, Gmail, Brevo, SendGrid, Amazon SES + more, with powerful…” Deployment: WordPress 5.5 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 4.10.2. 4,000,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Free WP Mail SMTP plugin. Fix WordPress email deliverability with Gmail, Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Cloudflare, Brevo…” Deployment: WordPress 6.5 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 2.4.1. 700,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Send emails from your WordPress site using your preferred SMTP provider like Gmail, Outlook, AWS, Zoho, SMTP.com, Brevo…” Deployment: WordPress 5.5 / PHP 5.5. Listed version 1.2.4. 500,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Make SMTP email sending and delivery easy. Configure Gmail SMTP, Outlook, Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, SendLayer or connect to…” Deployment: WordPress 5.5 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 2.15.1. 500,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Install Post SMTP (WordPress SMTP Plugin) to fix WordPress email delivery. Connect Gmail SMTP, Microsoft 365, Brevo, SendGrid,…” Deployment: WordPress 5.6.0 / PHP 7.1. Listed version 4.0.2. 300,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Effortlessly manage transactional emails with Email Deliverability. High deliverability, logs and statistics, and no SMTP plugins needed.” Deployment: WordPress 6.7 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 1.4.7. 200,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “SureMail – SMTP and Email Logs Plugin with Amazon SES, Postmark, and Other Providers”. Deployment: WordPress 5.4 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 2.0.3. 200,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Easily send email from your WordPress site through Mailgun using the HTTP API or SMTP.” Deployment: WordPress 5.6 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 2.2.3. 80,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Configure a SMTP server to send email from your WordPress site. Configure the wp_mail() function to use SMTP…” Deployment: WordPress 7.1 / PHP not specified. Listed version 1.1.28. 70,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Email deliverability made SOLID. Connect to your chosen email provider with an intuitive set-it-and-forget-it SMTP plugin.” Deployment: WordPress 6.4 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 3.0.0. 60,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Resolve email delivery issues, increase inbox placement, track sent email, get 24/7 support, and real-time reporting.” Deployment: WordPress 6.2 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 1.17.1. 40,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “A simple and effective WordPress contact form & SMTP plugin. Compatible with best themes out there, is both…” Deployment: WordPress 5.5 / PHP 5.6. Listed version 2.6.1. 30,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.