Using wp-mail() as default and smtp as fallback

  • Because of my shared webhost restrictions (number of mails send per hour and per IP with SMTP), I can’t use their SMTP server as the main method. I would like to use WordPress’ default method (which works great most of the time for me) and the SMTP as fallback.
    However, when choosing the default setting “smtp:none:none://localhost:25” no mail is sent. The error is “Connection timed out”, nothing else.
    I have not found yet a plugin that is doing this. Can you provide a solution ?
    Thank you.

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  • Please verify the details with your hosting support.

    I doubt any host will allow this kind of login.

    Thread Starter PozHonks

    (@pozhonks)

    Do you mean that you cannot use the classical WordPress mail() method as by default setting instead of “smtp:none:none://localhost:25” ?
    Thank you.

    No, because I overwrite wp_mail.

    You need to get the detailes to connect like you did it from external source.

    Server name, port, user, password, auth type (ssl,tls)

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