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Welcome to nanoPost, or, as we’d like to think of ourselves, The WordPress Email Authority. Our mission is to help you solve your WordPress email problems, whether it’s setting up, maintaining, or troubleshooting. Our expert guides, Q&A, reviews, and news on WordPress SMTP, contact forms, and more are here to provide you make the best choices.

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      Thirteen free SMTP options for WordPress, ranked by whether the $0 tier is actually permanent. Permanent free plans, trials, and testing sandboxes – separated.

    • Bird (formerly MessageBird, formerly SparkPost) as a WordPress SMTP server

      SparkPost operates as Bird’s email product after the 2022 acquisition. Self-service Startup (from $15/mo for 50K) and Growth (from $80/mo for 100K) tiers; dedicated IP is a $24.95/mo add-on on Growth and above. The official WordPress plugin remains closed as of March 2025.

    • Pressable

      Pressable’s built-in relay sends WordPress mail without a plugin; 200 emails/hour and 4 unique sender addresses per 24 hours. No bundled mailboxes. Titan add-on at $3.50/inbox/month.

    • Flywheel

      Flywheel routes wp_mail through SendGrid without a plugin. Daily sending limits are undisclosed. Port 25 blocked; 465 and 587 open. No bundled mailboxes or forwarding.

    • DreamHost

      DreamHost bundles email with DreamPress; shared plans charge $1.99/mailbox/month after 3 months. PHP mail() unsigned; port 25 blocked. 100 recipients/hour cap.

    • Bluehost

      Bluehost includes domain email on all WordPress plans. Default wp_mail uses PHP mail(), unsigned. Sending limit is 500 emails/hour per domain. SMTP ports open.

    • Troubleshooting WordPress email: a reference

      WordPress email breaks at one of four stages in the delivery chain. The symptom (silent send, bounce, spam placement) does not tell you which stage. The diagnostic method is to find the stage first.

    • DMARC for WordPress email: policy, alignment, and reports

      DMARC is the DNS record that tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM, and where to send reports about the failures. For WordPress sites, it is also the record Gmail and Yahoo now require.

    • SPF for WordPress email: what the record does and how it fails

      SPF is the DNS TXT record that lists the servers allowed to send mail from your domain. Receivers check the sending IP against the list, and the record is where WordPress operators tell Gmail and Outlook which relay the site uses.

    • iThemes Hosting (Discontinued)

      iThemes Hosting was a managed WordPress hosting product on Liquid Web infrastructure. Discontinued after the iThemes brand folded into SolidWP, then into the Liquid Web Kadence Add-ons Bundle in 2026.

    • Maileroo as a WordPress SMTP Server

      Maileroo is an Australian-owned, EU-resident transactional relay – 3,000 emails/month free, then $10 for 25,000, $15 for 50,000. Undercuts SMTP2GO and MailerSend at every tier, with feature parity across paid plans.

    • SendPulse as a WordPress SMTP Server

      SendPulse SMTP for WordPress: 12,000 emails/month free, $7.85 for 25K paid, EU-resident sending, and a 24-hour profile approval before the SMTP endpoint activates.