a bit useless

Hi Michael. Thanks for your review, but I don’t understand. It’s only function is to support mailing from 3rd party plugins.

And I’m pretty sure I didn’t spend hundreds of hours on it for it not to do that. ??

It works great with plugins ( ones that are coded properly )

.. and there’s a list of plugins with verified support on the front page.

he’s just trolling ??

I am not trolling.
WordPress Database Backup does not work with your plugin, for example. So I swithced back to Easy WP SMTP, which is tiny and simple.

Ya.. because WP DB Backup codes directly to PHPMailer. There’s a WordPress API for e-mail and they don’t use it.

There is no way that is the fault of this plugin. What else have you got?

https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/wp-db-backup/tags/2.3.0/wp-db-backup.php:

// try to use phpmailer directly (WP 2.2+)
if ( is_object( $phpmailer ) && ( strtolower(get_class( $phpmailer )) == 'phpmailer' ) ) {

	$phpmailer->AddAddress( $to );
	$phpmailer->AddAttachment($diskfile, $filename);
	$phpmailer->Body = $message;
	$phpmailer->CharSet = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_charset', get_bloginfo('charset') );
	$phpmailer->From = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from', $from_email );
	$phpmailer->FromName = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from_name', $from_name );
	$phpmailer->IsMail();
	$phpmailer->Subject = $subject;

	do_action_ref_array( 'phpmailer_init', array( &$phpmailer ) );

	$result = @$phpmailer->Send();

Then why do other SMTP plugins work correctly with WP DB Backup?
Easy WP SMTP or BWS SMTP have no problem with it.

There are two classes of SMTP plugins, those that inject your SMTP settings into PHPMailer:

• WP Mail SMTP
• Easy SMTP
• WP Mail Bank
• Configure SMTP

And those that replace PHP Mailer with something else:

• wp Mandrill
• SendGrid
• Postman
• Cimy Swift

While they all work with wp_mail, WP DB Backup is specifically coded to work with the first group only. That does not mean the second ground should all get 1-Stars. It means WP DB Backup should fix their code.

To send mail in WordPress, use wp_mail. Not @$phpmailer->Send();

Thanks for the explanation.
Still I think that all the mail plugins must support both features with a switcher for admin to choose.

It’s not a “feature”. It’s a library. Why should the user need to choose which library their 3rd-party plugin supports? How are they even supposed to know?

Maybe you missed the part where I wrote WordPress has an API for sending mail.

Whatever it is, it needs to be implemented and described if the plugin is intended to replace standard mailing function.
If there are 10 ways of sending mail in WP, a good plugin must support all of them. If it doesn’t, well, it’s useless for me, so we’ve come back to my review.
That is my personal point of view, you do not have to agree with me.

I’ve told you three times now. There is only 1 way of sending mail in WP.

If it’s useless for you, then don’t use it. You don’t need to publicly lie about it, reduce the star rating or give ridiculous suggestions like “be like Easy SMTP”. If it was Easy SMTP, it wouldn’t have 200 5-star reviews and only three idiotic trolls.

Stick with the WP Mail SMTP clones and go away.

This plugin works well with well coded plugins

Pfff, you insult me instead of admitting the fact that I’m right. Yes, other 3rd party plugins may be bad, but they work with other SMTP-plugins, while yours doesn’t.
Where did I lie? I’ve written that this plugin doesn’t work for me properly, so I put 1 star. what’s the problem with you? If you have a butthurt that is your own personal problem.

@michael_zloi

The fact is that rating it 1 star because it doesn’t work with other similar plugins is not reason to leave a negative rating, a neutral rating sounds much more fair because the plugin works as stated.

I am not associated with the authoe. Just sharing my opinion

@demi Iv.
Fully agree with you. The reason why I haven’t changed my rating is just because the author is too aggressive and considers his plugin to be flawless.