Troubleshooting Tips For Easy WP SMTP

Troubleshooting Tips For Easy WP SMTP post helps you resolve some of the most common errors and issues you might run into and more.

Last Updated: September 20, 2023

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Troubleshooting Tips For Easy WP SMTP

This is a list of some of the most common questions asked in wordpress.org support forum. I have created this list to help you troubleshoot some of the issues you might run into. If you can’t find an answer below for your issue, please open up a support ticket in easy wp smtp forum. Someone will help you as soon as possible.

What You need:

• Easy WP SMTP plugin.

Easy WP SMTP Tutorials:

1. Plugin Settings
2. Additional Settings
3. Test Email Settings
4. Troubleshooting Tips
5. FAQ

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Server Issues

Q1 I am receiving the following error message. How do I fix this?

SMTP ERROR: MAIL FROM command failed: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. t46-v6sm36936863wrc.95 – gsmtp

Solution 1: You need to install openssl package on your local server. If you’re running Ubuntu, you can do this by following command: You can read more about the solution from the following forum post.

sudo apt-get install openssl

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Q2 This plugin is not working with my server. I received the following error message in the log file, how do I fix this?

SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0)SMTP connect() failed https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting.

Solution: Check the following URL PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting.

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Host 1&1

Q1 This plugin is not working with my server. My host is 1&1. How do I fix this issue?

Solution: 1&1 host shared server blocks the call to an SMTP server. You need to have a VPS or Dedicated server account for this plugin to work. You can read more about this in the following support thread.

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Gmail

Q1 I am having issues trying to set up a Gmail account. How can I fix this?

Solution: In some cases the device or app might not meet Gmail security standards. Check the following URL let less secure apps access your account to learn how to lower the standards.

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Q2 The plugin worked until last week. Now, it cannot connect to Google’s server (G-Suite). So the contact forms are not being sent (gravity forms). The error is “SMTP Error: Failed to connect to server”.s?

Solution 1: Support for using Google less secure apps was discontinued on May 30, 2022 for some accounts. Since you are currently using this feature, consider switching to an app password to prevent any disruption in email delivery. Check the following link support thread to learn more.

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GoDaddy

Q1 What are the correct GoDaddy server settings?

Solution 1: The following are the correct GoDaddy’s settings posted by a GoDaddy employee in the support forum.

The correct settings are:

For cPanel hosting:
SMTP Host – localhost
Encryption – None
SMTP Port – 25
Authentication – None

For every other hosting type:
SMTP Host – relay-hosting.secureserver.net
Encryption – None
SMTP Port – 25
Authentication – None

Connecting to outside servers on standard mail ports is a security policy GoDaddy won’t change for shared hosting. You’d need to use a provider that supports port 80 or an API, which is usually one of the reputable delivery services like sendgrid.com or mailgun.com.

Q2 How to troubleshoot GoDaddy server, Contact Form 7 and this plugin?

Solution 1: Check the following support post in the forum provided by one of the users.

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Miscellaneous

Q1 All my e-mails are landing in the spam or junk box, how can I fix this?

Solution: Hi, it is not easy to work out why some e-mails land in the spam or junk box. You might like to read the following thread. This might help you.

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Q2 I am using your plugin and I typed a wrong email address for testing purposes and it was accepted by your plugin and delivered. For example: z@z.com. Why is your plugin not blocking or preventing this?

Solution: Our plugin cannot check if SMTP actually delivers an email or not. It can only check if SMTP server accepted the email for delivery (which in this case, it did.). For example: A test email shows whether communication between your website and SMTP server can be established. Whatever happens to the email afterwards, cannot be tracked or handled by the plugin. Properly configured SMTP servers (not the plugin, but the server itself) should bounce undelivered emails back to the sender or to some pre-configured email. You can read more about it from the following forum post.

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Q3 How can I add BCC to the settings.

Solution: Someone in the forum provided a solution. You can read more about it from the following forum post.

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Q4 EHLO problem and solution.

Solution: Someone in the forum provided a solution. You can read more about it from the following forum post.

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Q5 I’m wondering if there’s a hook I can use to remove the XMailer header when this plugin is activated?

Solution: You can read the solution provided by one of the developers. Click on the following link forum post to learn more.

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Test Email

Q1 When I tried to send a test email from the plugin, it did not received the email and it keeps giving me this error.

SPF Action Needed: It doesn’t look like the SPF record required by your SMTP server has been added to your domain. Please contact your SMTP server provider for details on how to find the SPF record, and how to add this record to your domain’s DNS.

Solution: When we’ve seen this issue before the issue is usually related to 1 of 3 reasons:

• The new SPF records are still propagating. Sometimes propagation can take anywhere from 24-48 hours to complete.
• There is a typo or some other form of error in the SPF record. Most website hosts will not allow duplicates, but please ensure that you only have 1 SPF record.
• Your domain is registered on one website, but it is actually hosted on a different website. Please use https://who.is/ to confirm the website host your domain is hosted on.

Click on the following link forum post to learn more.

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Office 365

Q1 The option to override the ‘From Name’ doesn’t seem to work with Office365. How do I fix this?

Solution: Someone provided a solution in the following forum post.

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Q2 How do I configure Office 365?

Solution: Someone provided a solution in the following forum post.

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Q3 I am having issues with Office 365 configurations in the plugins settings?

Solution: If smtp.office365.com does not work try smtp.microsoft.com instead. Check the following link forum post to learn more.

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Q4 On October 1st Microsoft will be implementing a change to their mail service that will affect any mailboxes using older authentication. I don’t see anything in the settings for this plugin to modify the authentication type or any mention of this change in the support forum. How do I fix this issue?

Solution: As long as you’re using an App Password, you should be good. Basically, Microsoft made a change on their end that won’t allow you to connect with your normal password. Instead, you can create an App Password in your Microsoft account and use that. Check the following link forum post to learn more.

Amazon SES

Q1 I’m not able to send emails with this plugin using Amazon SES. It keeps returning this error:

CLIENT -> SERVER: [credentials hidden]CLIENT -> SERVER: [credentials hidden]SMTP ERROR: Password command failed: 535 Authentication Credentials Invalid
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.

Solution: In order for it to work properly, you need to create your credentials in:

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I hope the above helps you troubleshoot any issues you might run into while using our plugin.

I will be updating this post from time to time. So keep coming back for the latest troubleshooting tips.

Enjoy.