Confused about O-Auth

  • Hi Yehuda,

    First off thank you for taking over this plugin and keeping it going. I wanted to use this plugin for setting up an appointment calendar:

    https://codecanyon.net/item/amelia-enterpriselevel-appointment-booking-wordpress-plugin/22067497

    The problem is that my site is setup to use O-Auth instead of SMTP to authenticate my server to my Google email account. The plugin author said their plugin will only work with…

    PHP Mail
    WP Mail
    SMTP
    Mailgun

    I’m curious if in the backend, Post SMTP is really using the WP Mail but connecting and authenticating to Gmail using O-Auth. Could you please explain and let me know if you think this other plugin will still be able to send mail using your Post SMTP plugin?

    Thanks

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  • OAuth 2.0 is not a replacement of SMTP, it is simply a way to authenticate with your Google account. It replaces the username/password authentication. So, you still send mail through SMTP.

    Like @axel13 was kind to explain, you will be ok even if you choose API.
    Post SMTP is wrapping the whole logic under the wordpress core mailing function.

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