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Wonderful SMTP Mailer and Log
Simple, bloatware-free SMTP email plugin: sends by SMTP, logs the result, resends failures. Minimal and secure on purpose, and it will stay minimal.
Wonderful SMTP Mailer and Log ranks #26,876 among WordPress.org plugins with 30+ active installations, is #1,033 of 3,397 in the Communication category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Sep 22, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.2
v1.1.0
Current Version v1.1.0
Updated 1 day ago
Last Update on 22 Sep, 2026
Refreshed 13 hours ago
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#1,033 of 3,397 in Communication
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- Version
- 1.1.0
- Last Updated
- Sep 22, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.2+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.2
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Wonderful SMTP Mailer and Log
No. Without an SMTP host the plugin does not touch outgoing mail at all and WordPress keeps using PHP mail() exactly as before.
The connection check opens a session with your mail server, negotiates encryption, logs in and hangs up. Nothing is sent and nothing is logged, so you
test message actually delivers an email and records it in the log, which also proves that logging works.
Read the SMTP conversation printed underneath the error. It is the unedited exchange with your mail server, and the reason is almost always in the last few lines — wrong credentials, a blocked port, or a sender your provider will not accept.
In the WordPress options table, unless you define them as constants in wp-config.php, which is what we recommend for production. The password is never echoed back into the settings form.
Yes. Open the message and click the attachment. The download only ever serves a file this site itself attached to that logged email — the request names a log entry and a position in its attachment list, never a path — and a resend re-attaches whatever is still on disk. Files deleted since are marked as gone.
Because the log records where an attachment was, not the file itself. Some plugins keep what they send — the well-known WooCommerce invoice plugins file their PDFs away and can hand them back later. Plenty of others do not: form uploads written to a temporary directory, one-off exports, reports generated for a single send. Those are gone within the hour, and a resend then goes out without them. With storage on, a copy is kept regardless of what the sending plugin does, for as many days as you choose. Copies are off by default because they are customer documents sitting on disk.
an index.php, and each file is stored under a random 32-character name with a neutral .bin extension — so nothing there is guessable, and nothing there is something a web server would execute even if the directory protection were bypassed. The original filename lives in the database and is restored on
A daily job deletes copies past the period you set. Setting it to 0 keeps a copy for as long as its log entry lives — deleting the entry always takes its copies with it, so a file is never left on disk with no record pointing at it. Deactivating the plugin deletes them all, and uninstalling removes the directory. Once a copy is gone the message shows the attachment struck through as no longer available, and warns you before you resend rather than quietly sending it short.
Yes — it has to, otherwise the resend button could not work. Log entries live in your own database and are deleted after the retention period you set, 30 days by default. Set it to 0 to keep everything.
