Perfect to setup SMTP

Postman is a PHP SMTP mailer. If you don’t want SMTP, why would you install it?

Did you mean PHPMailer? Postman is written using the Zend library. It is not written for the PHPMailer library.

Did you mean PHP’s mail() function? There are a dozen other plugins that use mail() to not deliver email. Use them.

Perhaps if you state what functionality you feel is missing, I can add it.

Yeah i mean the PHP’s mail() function. it will be perfect to be able to setup easily this function.

Postman is a PHP SMTP mailer. If you don’t want SMTP, why would you install it?

It makes sense ^^ i just said that because i think to be able to setup up PHP’s mail() function would be great. It will make this plugin more complete.

But about the SMTP setup, this plugin is perfect for me, nice job ! ??

i think to be able to setup up PHP’s mail() function would be great.

If you try to send gmail.com or hotmail.com email through PHP mail() it will fail due to SPF validation. if you try to send yahoo.com email through PHP mail() it will fail due to DMARC validation.

Perfect is 4 stars but increasing the failure rate would be 5 stars??

No, it does not make sense. But thank-you for the feedback.

Yeah you are right ! i’ll give the 5th stars ??

I’m not trying to pressure you to change your rating. But I am trying to discover what additional functionality you think the plugin would be improved with.

yes i understood but what you said it’s true, i approve your reply ^^

perhaps having a “disable” switch for the entire SMTP/API transport could still be a good idea, otherwise you still need to disable the plugin completely to revert back to the default mailer…

it could be helpful in testing so you can still access the plugin, run the connection test and diagnostics and debug settings etc. on a live site, while knowing (especially if you’re having problems) that your default mail is still going out as it normally would (php_mailer without SMTP) in the meanwhile.

well, that is something I was doing the other night while testing a different plugin before I found yours (WP Mail SMTP) that has such a switch… it was *kinda* useful, in the sense of being able to send test emails with the SMTP setting *before* those settings are actually applied live.

so it *could* avoid loss of emails while setting up the plugin… and maybe a similar case would be changing the SMTP settings to a different server and testing those. I guess a similar idea is being able to disable a site cache without deactivating the cache plugin entirely. my 2c.

(total props on a great plugin by the way!)

I think an interesting function would be to test a second setup without modifying the main configuration (which running in a live website) to not enter in conflict or block the mailing system and if the second setup works good, be able to apply for the main setting.

@majick, please see Postman’s testing tool called Delivery Mode in Settings > Postman > Configure Manually > Advanced.

@majick, I think you may be confused about the way Postman is configured.

When the plugin says “Postman is not sending mail” it is literally not sending the mail. In this case, WordPress sends the mail, or any other SMTP plugin you have configured.

Once Postman is setup correctly, which happens in one step assuming you use the Wizard, and tells you “Postman is delivering mail” then it has taken over emailing responsibilities.

There is no chance of Postman losing mail when it is not configured.