Hi everyone,
thank you for your honest feedback.
We want to help users resole their WordPress deliverability issues, so that’s why we added additional popular transactional email service providers and added the debug event feature.
If all you need, is to send emails through your SMTP server, that’s OK, it’s still working just like it did (the “Other SMTP” mailer) and we improved it as well, by always encrypting the SMTP password in the DB and improving the UI.
All other transactional mailers can just be ignored and will not affect the functionality.
The plugin size change is not reflecting the functionality or slower performance of the plugin. If you are using the Other SMTP mailer, it will send out emails just as fast as before.
And the new Debug Events feature might help you out, since it’s logging any failed attempts, this way you’ll know if there are any issues with your SMTP server.
We just released a new update (version 2.0.1), which includes a new setting in the Easy WP SMTP > Settings > Misc (tab), called Compact Mode. It will remove the top level WP Admin menu entry for Easy WP SMTP and move it back to the WP Admin Settings submenu (where it was before the update). If that is something that was bothering you ??
Thank you and have a nice day!