Sending emails via an SMTP server

This documentation page is for Quform version 1 and may not be applicable for Quform 2 click here to visit the documentation for Quform 2.

Configuring SMTP

To use an SMTP server to send the emails go to Quform → Settings on the WordPress menu. Go to the Email sending settings section and at Email sending method choose SMTP then enter your connection details. For example, to send email via Gmail it may look something like this.

SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com SMTP port: 465 SMTP encryption: SSL SMTP username: your-username@gmail.com SMTP password: your-password

Reliable SMTP servers

There are some premium and free SMTP services available which are probably more reliable than your own mail server and have a higher delivery success.

SparkPost

Free (up to 100,000 emails per month)

SparkPost have a free SMTP service that allow you to send 100,000 emails per month for free (10,000 per day). The service also has a Dashboard where you can track each sent email. Visit https://www.sparkpost.com to sign up.

Mailjet

Free (up to 6,000 emails per month)

Mailjet have a free SMTP service that allow you to send 6,000 emails per month for free (200 per day). The service also has a Dashboard where you can track each sent email. Visit https://www.mailjet.com to sign up and see this page for how to get the SMTP settings.

Gmail

Free

You can use the free Gmail SMTP service to send emails, example settings are at the top of this page.

Troubleshooting the SMTP connection

See the main article Testing email sending.

Using SMTP on a local server (WAMP, XAMPP etc.)

If you are developing your site locally with a web server package such as XAMPP, you will need to enable OpenSSL in PHP to connect to SMTP servers which use TLS or SSL. See this page to find out how.