How to Get WordPress To Inbox Emails No Spam Box

How-to Get WordPress To Inbox Emails No Spam Box

My friend told me that he had to look into the Spam folder to pick up the Comment-Reply-Email from my blog.

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The problem is that the From-Email address is the VPS and it could be marked spam as many hosts are sending lots of emails per day (imaging lots of other VPS users). You can set up your own Email server but that involves too much technical work.

The solution is to use your own email address e.g. GMAIL via the SMTP instead of inbuild mail() function to send emails and that would be marked as spam.

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You would need the SMTP plugins to direct all WP emails using SMTP settings which can be found: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

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The following is a handy list of configurations that you would need if you use GMAIL. If you let WP send emails using you GMAIL SMTP, you would find all the outgoing emails (as backup) in the sent folder, which is really nice.

Gmail SMTP port (TLS): 587

Gmail SMTP port (SSL): 465

Gmail SMTP TLS/SSL required: yes

Simple as that, problem solved.