Title: DadsFam SMTP Author: dadsfam Published: 11. August 2026 Last modified: 7. Oktober 2026 --- Plugins suchen ![](https://ps.w.org/dadsfam-email-smtp/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3714354) ![](https://ps.w.org/dadsfam-email-smtp/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3681171) # DadsFam SMTP Von [dadsfam](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dadsfam/) [Herunterladen](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dadsfam-email-smtp.2.1.6.zip) * [Details](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-email-smtp/#description) * [Rezensionen](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-email-smtp/#reviews) * [Installation](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-email-smtp/#installation) * [Entwicklung](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-email-smtp/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dadsfam-email-smtp/) ## Beschreibung WordPress sends email with PHP’s `mail()` function, which most hosts either block or deliver straight to spam. **DadsFam SMTP** replaces it with a real authenticated SMTP connection, so your password resets, contact forms and WooCommerce order emails actually arrive. Everything described below works on every site. Nothing is disabled, blurred out, time-limited or reduced. #### Set up in about two minutes Pick your provider from the list and the host, port and encryption fill themselves in. Enter your username and password, save, then send a test email. The test shows you the full SMTP conversation, so if something is wrong you can see exactly which step failed. #### Supported providers Gmail, Outlook and Office 365, SendGrid, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Brevo, Postmark, SparkPost, Zoho Mail, Yahoo Mail, Hostinger, cPanel, and any custom SMTP server. #### Features * **13 pre-configured providers** with automatic host, port and encryption defaults * **Per-provider setup notes** built into the interface, including the common gotchas * **AES-256-CBC encrypted credentials** — passwords are never stored as plain text * **Full sender control** — From Name, From Email, Reply-To and Return-Path * **Unlimited email logging** with status, subject, recipient, connection and timestamp * **Retention control** — keep logs for as many days as you choose, or forever * **One-click resend** of any logged email * **Full email body viewer** in a sandboxed preview frame * **CSV export** of your entire delivery history * **Send test email** with live SMTP diagnostic output * **Connection test** that opens a real socket and speaks SMTP, without sending anything * **Deliverability checker** for SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX records * **Email health score** combining DNS authentication, configuration and real send history * **Delivery failure alerts** by email * **Blocking mode** stops all outgoing mail on staging sites while still logging attempts * **Suppression list** for addresses and domains that must never be contacted * **Analytics** with a seven-day delivery chart and per-connection success rates * **WooCommerce diagnostics** — confirm store emails route correctly and test each type * **Dashboard widget** with sent, failed and success rate at a glance * **Backup and migrate** your configuration as JSON * **Documented hook API** for developers #### WooCommerce DadsFam SMTP hooks in at a late priority, so it wins over WooCommerce’s own From address settings and your store emails always send from the address you configured. The diagnostics screen flags any mismatch between the two and lets you test-send each WooCommerce email type. Declared compatible with High-Performance Order Storage and Cart & Checkout Blocks. #### Extending the plugin The plugin exposes documented actions and filters — `dfsmtp_configure_mailer`, ` dfsmtp_after_configure_mailer`, `dfsmtp_mail_failed`, `dfsmtp_mail_logged`, `dfsmtp_save_settings`,` dfsmtp_settings_page_end`, `dfsmtp_nav_pages` and others — so you can layer your own behaviour onto the send pipeline. The full list is documented in the header of `dadsfam-email-smtp.php`. An optional commercial add-on, DadsFam SMTP PRO, is built on this same hook API for stores and agencies sending at higher volume. It is a separate plugin and is not required — this plugin is complete on its own. #### A word about PRO Right, let me be straight with you, because I hate being sold to as much as you do. Everything above is free and it stays free. Sending your mail through a proper SMTP server is not a premium feature. Saving your provider details, encrypting your password, logging what went out and resending one that failed are not premium features. Those are things a plugin like this should just do, and if I put them behind a paywall I would be taking the mickey. There is a PRO add-on. It exists because I am a dad in Cape Town, and this is one of the things that puts food on the table at my house. That is the honest reason. Not „unlock your potential“, not „supercharge your workflow“. Just: if this plugin got your email sending again and you can spare it, PRO helps me keep building. There is one PRO version and one price: R500 once off, roughly $35, per plugin. It is not a subscription, there is no yearly renewal, and it does not expire. Pay once and it stays yours, updates included. If the free version does everything you need, use that and think nothing of it — it is not crippled to push you across, and it never will be. What PRO adds is the stuff you only want once you are sending real volume — sending from more than one mailbox and routing each message to the right one, failing over to a backup server when your main one has a bad day, retrying failed sends on their own, open and click tracking, failure alerts into Slack or Discord, and a weekly delivery digest. That is convenience and automation. It is not the plugin working properly, because the plugin already works properly. So if the free one does everything you need, brilliant. Genuinely. Use it, and I hope it saves you a frustrating afternoon chasing email that will not send. If you get to the point where the automation would save you real time, PRO is at plugins. dadsfam.co.za. Either way, thanks for using something I built. — Zak, DadsFam PRO adds: * Multiple saved SMTP connections * Smart routing by subject, sender or recipient domain * Automatic failover to a backup server * Auto-retry of failed emails * Open and click tracking * Slack, Discord and webhook failure alerts * Weekly delivery digest and hourly send limits ### External services This plugin does not connect to any service of its own. It has no home-phoning, no analytics and no licence checks. It does, however, exist to hand your website’s email to an SMTP server that **you** choose and configure. That server is a third party service, and what it receives is entirely determined by your own settings. **What is sent:** the emails your WordPress site produces — sender, recipients, subject, message body and any attachments — together with the username and password you entered, so the server will accept them. **When it is sent:** only when WordPress sends an email, and only once you have entered SMTP details and saved them. With no details entered, the plugin sends nothing anywhere. **Where it is sent:** to the host you type into the settings, and nowhere else. The plugin includes ready-made host and port presets for a number of well-known providers purely so you do not have to look them up. A preset is only a shortcut for filling in the form; selecting one does not contact anybody, and no provider is contacted unless you have entered credentials for it and WordPress sends an email. Because you choose the provider, you are agreeing to that provider’s terms. The presets included cover, among others: * Google Gmail / Workspace — [terms](https://policies.google.com/terms), [privacy](https://policies.google.com/privacy) * Microsoft Outlook / Microsoft 365 — [terms](https://www.microsoft.com/en/servicesagreement/), [privacy](https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement) * Amazon SES — [terms](https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/), [privacy](https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/) * SendGrid (Twilio) — [terms](https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/tos), [privacy](https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/privacy) * Mailgun — [terms](https://www.mailgun.com/legal/terms/), [privacy](https://www.mailgun.com/legal/privacy-policy/) * Postmark — [terms](https://postmarkapp.com/terms-of-service), [privacy](https://postmarkapp.com/privacy-policy) * Brevo — [terms](https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/), [privacy](https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/) * Zoho Mail — [terms](https://www.zoho.com/terms.html), [privacy](https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html) If you use your own mail server, or a provider not listed above, then that server is the only third party involved and its own terms apply. ### Support Email: support@dadsfam.co.za Website: https://www.dadsfam.co.za ## Screenshots [⌊Pick your provider and the host, port and encryption fill themselves in. Your password is encrypted before it is stored.⌉⌊Pick your provider and the host, port and encryption fill themselves in. Your password is encrypted before it is stored .⌉[ Pick your provider and the host, port and encryption fill themselves in. Your password is encrypted before it is stored. [⌊A deliverability score out of 85 with SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked against live DNS, and each item scored separately so you know which record to fix.⌉⌊A deliverability score out of 85 with SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked against live DNS, and each item scored separately so you know which record to fix.⌉[ A deliverability score out of 85 with SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked against live DNS, and each item scored separately so you know which record to fix. [⌊Every email logged, searchable by recipient or subject, showing the exact error the mail server gave back when something failed.⌉⌊Every email logged, searchable by recipient or subject, showing the exact error the mail server gave back when something failed.⌉[ Every email logged, searchable by recipient or subject, showing the exact error the mail server gave back when something failed. [⌊Totals, a seven-day trend and a breakdown by provider, so a drop in delivery shows up as a shape on a chart.⌉⌊Totals, a seven-day trend and a breakdown by provider, so a drop in delivery shows up as a shape on a chart.⌉[ Totals, a seven-day trend and a breakdown by provider, so a drop in delivery shows up as a shape on a chart. [⌊Sixteen AI abilities. An assistant can check deliverability, read why a message failed and fix the configuration — but never your password or the contents of your emails.⌉⌊Sixteen AI abilities. An assistant can check deliverability, read why a message failed and fix the configuration — but never your password or the contents of your emails.⌉[ Sixteen AI abilities. An assistant can check deliverability, read why a message failed and fix the configuration — but never your password or the contents of your emails. [⌊Everything in the free plugin is genuinely free. Nothing is blurred, disabled or time-limited. Pro is a separate, optional add-on.⌉⌊Everything in the free plugin is genuinely free. Nothing is blurred, disabled or time-limited. Pro is a separate, optional add-on.⌉[ Everything in the free plugin is genuinely free. Nothing is blurred, disabled or time-limited. Pro is a separate, optional add-on. ## Installation 1. Upload the `dadsfam-email-smtp` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install through** Plugins Add New**. 2. Activate the plugin. 3. Go to **DadsFam SMTP Settings** and choose your provider. 4. Enter your credentials and save. 5. Go to **DadsFam SMTP Test & Tools** and send a test email. ## FAQ ### Gmail keeps rejecting my password. Gmail will not accept your normal account password over SMTP. Turn on 2-Step Verification, then generate an App Password under Google Account Security App passwords, and use that instead. ### My host blocks port 25. Almost all do. Use port 587 with TLS, or 465 with SSL. If neither connects, use the connection test to confirm whether the problem is the network or your credentials, then ask your host whether outbound SMTP is permitted. ### Are my SMTP passwords safe? Passwords are encrypted with AES-256-CBC using a key derived from your site’s own` AUTH_KEY`, so a stolen database dump does not expose them. They are also never included in a configuration export. ### Will this work with WooCommerce? Yes. The plugin runs after WooCommerce and overrides its From address, so store emails send from your configured, authenticated address. There is a diagnostics screen for testing each WooCommerce email type. ### Does logging slow my site down? No. Each send writes one indexed row, and the log list never loads message bodies. Old entries are purged automatically on a daily schedule according to your retention setting. ### How do I stop a staging site emailing real customers? Turn on blocking mode under Settings Delivery Controls. Nothing is delivered, but every attempt is still logged so you can confirm what the site would have sent. ## Rezensionen Zu diesem Plugin liegen noch keine Rezensionen vor. ## Mitwirkende und Entwickler „DadsFam SMTP“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben an diesem Plugin mitgewirkt: Mitwirkende * [ dadsfam ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dadsfam/) [Übersetze „DadsFam SMTP“ in deine Sprache.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/dadsfam-email-smtp) ### Interessiert an der Entwicklung? [Durchstöbere den Code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dadsfam-email-smtp/), sieh dir das [SVN-Repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/dadsfam-email-smtp/) an oder abonniere das [Entwicklungsprotokoll](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dadsfam-email-smtp/) per [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dadsfam-email-smtp/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Änderungsprotokoll #### 2.1.6 * Fixed: opening an email in the log could show an empty white box instead of the email, so you had to reload the page, sometimes many times, before it showed. The email is now drawn fresh each time you open one, and it shows every time. * Fixed: the dark background behind an open email covered only part of the screen. * Fixed: with PRO’s open tracking on, looking at an email in the log counted as the person opening it, so every look pushed the open figures up. Looking no longer counts. * Improved: the window opens the moment you click View and says it is loading. If the email cannot be loaded, because the page has been open too long, your login has timed out or the connection dropped, it says so in plain words with a button to try again or reload the page. Before, nothing happened at all. * Improved: links in the email open in a new tab, plain-text emails keep their line breaks, and the Escape key closes the window. * Improved: the What’s New screen shows the newest release at the top, PRO releases included. #### 2.1.5 * Fixed: with PRO’s automatic retry switched on, one failed email could turn into dozens. Each retry was logged as a brand-new email, that copy failed too and was retried in its turn, and every failure sent you another „delivery failure“ alert. A retry now updates the email’s original log entry, so it is tried the number of times you set and then it stops. * Fixed: an email with no recipient address, such as an invoice for an order with no email on it, was queued for retry even though no retry could ever deliver it. It is now logged once, you get one alert that says there was nobody to send it to, and it is never retried. * Fixed: resending a failed email from the log now updates that entry, so an email you have already resent by hand can never be sent a second time by the retry job. * Changed: the Retries column in the email log shows a dash for an email that will not be retried. #### 2.1.4 * Tidied: numbers read from the settings forms and the log screen are now cleaned exactly the way WordPress.org asks. Nothing changes in how the plugin works. * Added: a translation template (languages/dadsfam-email-smtp.pot), so the plugin can be translated. #### 2.1.3 * Fixed: emails another plugin has stopped now stay stopped. If another plugin had already blocked an email (for example a „test mode“ switch on a site that is not live yet), DadsFam SMTP could still send it whenever its own blocking mode was off. It now always respects that decision. Nothing changes for normal sending. * Tidied: removed an old translation-loading call. WordPress has loaded plugin translations by itself since version 4.6. #### 2.1.2 * Changed: the PRO note in the description now states the actual arrangement. There are two versions and one price — R500 once off, roughly $35, per plugin. No subscription, no yearly renewal, no expiry date. Nothing about the free plugin has changed; it was never crippled and still is not. #### 2.1.1 * Added screenshots to the plugin page, so you can see the settings, the deliverability score, the email log and the rest before installing. No change to the plugin itself. #### 2.1.0 * **More of the plugin can now be run by an AI assistant.** Reading settings, stats and deliverability already worked. What was missing was everything you actually need when mail goes wrong, so this adds it. * Added: open a single log entry in full — who it went to, which provider carried it, and the exact error the server gave back. The stored message body and raw headers are deliberately never returned; that is the content of somebody’s email and it has no business in an assistant’s transcript. * Added: list the failed emails still waiting to be retried, with the error that stopped each one. Retrying itself is a Pro feature, but seeing what failed and why is free. * Added: export the mail configuration from one site and apply it to another, which makes setting up a row of sites the same way a single step. No password is ever included, so nothing sensitive travels between sites — each one still needs its own credential set before it can send. * Added: a single support report gathering versions, the current configuration, the SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks and recent sending statistics, so reporting a problem no longer means collecting four things by hand. * Tested up to WordPress 7.1. #### 2.0.10 * Packaging: trimmed the plugin tags to the five WordPress.org allows. The extra„ ai“ and „mcp“ tags were being ignored on import, so they have been removed. No functional change. #### 2.0.9 * Added: AI assistant support. If you use an MCP plugin such as WPVibe to connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI agent to your site, it can now read your SMTP stats, logs and settings, check deliverability (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), send a test email and change your configuration for you — all through the new WordPress Abilities API( WordPress 6.9+). * Every AI action requires administrator access, and your SMTP password is never exposed to the assistant. * On WordPress versions without the Abilities API, nothing changes — the plugin works exactly as before. * No changes to how the plugin sends, logs or tests email. #### 2.0.7 * Added: a plain-English „A word about PRO“ note in the readme — what stays free, why the optional add-on exists, and what it does. No features were moved behind a paywall. * No changes to how the plugin sends, logs or tests email. #### 2.0.6 * Changed: uninstall now removes only this plugin’s own data, addressed by exact name — its three options, its scheduled event and its log table — instead of sweeping the options table for anything sharing the „dfsmtp_“ prefix. Data belonging to a separate add-on that happens to use the same prefix is no longer removed; each plugin cleans up only what it owns, and the optional PRO add-on removes its own data through its own uninstall routine. * Changed: uninstall now runs its cleanup on every site of a multisite network rather than only the current one, so nothing is left behind on the other sites. The per-site „keep data on uninstall“ preference is still honoured for each site. #### 2.0.5 * Security: an imported configuration file is now cleaned key by key against a list of the settings this plugin actually owns, with each value checked for what that setting is allowed to contain. Decoding a file is not the same as trusting it, and an edited export can no longer introduce settings the plugin does not own. * Added: an External services section to this readme, setting out exactly what is sent to your SMTP provider, when, and where — along with the terms and privacy policies of the providers there are presets for. * Fixed: the plugin header pointed at a page that did not exist. * Changed: the text domain now matches the plugin slug, so the community translation tools can pick the plugin up. #### 2.0.4 * Security: stored SMTP passwords now use authenticated AES-256-GCM instead of AES-256-CBC, so a tampered value is detected rather than silently decrypted into something else. Passwords saved by earlier versions continue to work and are read transparently. * Security: removed the fallback that stored a password as plain text or base64 if encryption failed. If a server genuinely cannot encrypt, the save is refused with a clear message instead of quietly saving an unprotected password. * Changed: uninstall now removes everything under this plugin’s own option, transient and scheduled-event prefix generically, rather than listing add-on option names. * Changed: tightened the inline justifications on the direct database calls used during uninstall and on the raw socket used by the connection test. #### 2.0.3 * Fixed: WooCommerce email types were identified by searching the subject line for keywords, so any email whose subject contained a word like „Completed“ or„ Invoice“ was logged as a WooCommerce order email. The type now comes from WooCommerce’s own email object and is only recorded when WooCommerce actually sent the email. * Fixed: failed sends did not record the WooCommerce email type, so a failed order email could not be told apart from any other failure in the log. #### 2.0.2 * Version number aligned with the separate PRO add-on. No functional change to this plugin. #### 2.0.1 * Fixed: the SMTP connection tester used an implicitly nullable parameter, which is deprecated in PHP 8.4 and produced a notice on newer hosts. * Fixed: CSV export now passes the escape argument to fputcsv() explicitly. PHP 8.4 deprecates relying on the default, and the value used produces RFC 4180 output that spreadsheet software reads correctly. * Verified compatible with PHP 8.0 through 8.4 and with WordPress 7.0. #### 2.0.0 * Fixed: a failed delivery could trigger an unbounded chain of failure-alert emails, exhausting PHP memory and overloading the mail server. The alert path is now guarded against re-entry. * Fixed: the SMTP connection test now terminates commands with CRLF as RFC 5321 requires, so strict servers such as Microsoft 365 no longer hang or reject the handshake. * Fixed: the suppression list now matches whole addresses and domains rather than loose substrings, so a short entry can no longer block unrelated recipients. * Fixed: uninstall now removes every option the plugin creates, including the log table version marker. * Fixed: the log table is now created with all columns present rather than relying on a later migration step. * Changed: email logging is unlimited on every site, with retention controlled by a „keep logs for N days“ setting instead of a fixed entry cap. * Changed: CSV export and the full email body viewer are available on every site. * Changed: the plugin no longer overrides the WordPress core „weekly“ cron schedule. * Changed: admin styles are served from an enqueued stylesheet instead of an inline style block. * New: documented hook API so add-ons can extend the send pipeline and admin screens. * Upgrading from 1.6.x preserves all settings and log entries. #### 1.6.3 * Routing rules with an empty match value are skipped instead of capturing every email. * WooCommerce email detection moved to a hook-based flag consumed by a single outgoing email. * The log list view no longer selects the body column, preventing memory exhaustion on large logs. #### 1.5.0 * New email health score combining DNS authentication, configuration and send history. * New dashboard widget. #### 1.4.0 * Configuration backup and migrate as JSON. * Guided first-run setup. #### 1.2.0 * Blocking mode for staging sites. * Suppression list. * SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX deliverability checker. #### 1.0.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **2.1.6** * Zuletzt aktualisiert **vor 2 Tagen** * Aktive Installationen **20+** * WordPress-Version ** 6.0 oder höher ** * Getestet bis **7.1.3** * PHP-Version ** 8.0 oder höher ** * Sprache * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-email-smtp/) * Schlagwörter * [email](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email/)[email log](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email-log/) [mailer](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/mailer/)[smtp](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/smtp/) [woocommerce](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/) * [Erweiterte Ansicht](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-email-smtp/advanced/) ## Bewertungen Es wurden noch keine Rezensionen eingereicht. 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