PostSMTP vs PHPMailer

  • Hello!
    Thank you for your great plugin. I appreciate it!
    I have a question.
    What’s the difference between PostSMTP and PHPMailer?
    In addition, which is better way for performance?
    Thank you.

    Best regards,
    Heathera

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  • Hi,

    Post SMTP is preferred, if you have conflicts or strange behaviour try phpmailer.

    I didn’t bechmark both, so it’s hard to tell

    Thread Starter stokim

    (@stokim)

    @yehudah Thank you for your reply.
    PHPMAILER is not working for me. Weird. I was searching the way to make it work.

    What issues do you have?

    Thread Starter stokim

    (@stokim)

    No, there’s no issue with SMTP. Your plugin works great.
    I just have curious of reason why default wordpress WP_MAIL() is not working ??

    @stokim Some web hosts block PHP Mailer or change it’s behaviour.

    A compromised web server could use PHP Mail without the need for a username/password to be supplied to send an infinite amount of spam whereas an SMTP account needs authorisation to log in with (usually !!).

    Depending on your web host, they may have blocked the ports required by PHPMailer by default and you need to ask them to whitelist those ports, or they may have switched off the PHP Mailer function completely.

    It’s why email sent with PHP Mailer has a lower reputation than (most) emails sent via SMTP.

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