The WordPress Email Authority
WordPress Email Q&A
Direct answers to the WordPress email questions that actually come up: why password reset emails don’t arrive, why a contact form reaches Office 365 but not Gmail, whether to standardise SMTP across an agency’s client sites, what changes when a business moves from free Gmail to Workspace.
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Best way to set up SMTP for client websites?
Standardise SMTP across client sites by opening one transactional provider account per client, on the client’s domain, with credentials held by the agency.
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Users not receiving password reset emails in WordPress
WordPress password reset email fails for five distinct reasons. This diagnostic identifies which is causing the problem and gives the specific fix for each.
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Form not sending mail to Gmail (but sending to Office 365)
Gmail rejects unauthenticated mail; Microsoft 365 downgrades it to Junk. Here is why your form reaches Office 365 but not Gmail, and how to fix it.
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What is the difference between Google Workspace Gmail and free Gmail?
Free Gmail at gmail.com is free. Google Workspace costs $7/user/month and adds custom-domain mail, higher SMTP limits, and admin controls. What changes for a WordPress site.
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Block certain countries from Contact Form 7?
CF7 geo-blocking works via Cloudflare WAF, Wordfence Premium, or GeoIP plugins. For brand-confusion volume, a form-level filter usually works better.