How To Setup WP Mail SMTP With Different Host (Ultimate Guide)

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 Have you ever tried to set up forms on your WordPress site? Sometimes you find the problem at the time of emails delivery. It is a common issue in WordPress, but you can fix it by using WP Mail SMTP for reliable email delivery. 

It is the best WordPress SMTP plugin which allows you to easily send WordPress emails using a secure mail transfer protocol. Bellow we are going to discusses essay setup WP Mail SMTP with any host. 

What is WP Mail SMTP? Why do you want to Send WP Emails?

We heard about so many plugins in WordPress. So, WP Mail SMTP is one of them which allow you to send WordPress emails using an SMTP server. It ensures that your emails are delivered using standard mail protocol.  

After the setup of a WordPress site, you are not getting any mail from WordPress. WordPress notification emails and emails from your WordPress contact form plugin is also included in it. 

It is the standard way to send emails and SMTP is a secure mail transfer protocol. It is necessary to login to a mail server to send emails which prevent the problem of hosting server and also improves email deliverability. 

WordPress Hosting companies generally offer free business email addresses which can be used by you with your own domain name.  

Set a separate email address for WordPress website. After the creation of email address, you can easily use it to send WordPress emails. 

Here WP Mail SMTP plugin comes in. it allows you to send WordPress emails via SMTP by entering your SMTP credentials. 

Firstly you have to install and activate the WP Mail SMTP plugin. 

How to install WP Mail SMTP plugin in WordPress

There are three methods of installing a WordPress plugin. 

Using WordPress Plugin Search

Using WordPress Admin Plugin Upload

Manually Install a WordPress Plugin Using FTP.

You can choose any option out of these three methods for installation and activation of Plugin and after activation, you have to go to Setting Section and then go to WP Mail SMTP page to configure the plugin settings.


Now you have to go to your SMTP settings to use WP Mail SMTP. The first part of the settings will be similar to your hosting company. you can do it by following settings. 

Through Email -  This email address used to send all WordPress emails.

Through Name -  Always use your website’s title as from name because this will be used to send an email.

Mailer-  Now you have to select “other SMTP” from here you will be sending emails using host SMTP server.

Return Path - In this box, you can check the status of your emails.  

If you want to continue using your host, you need to enter the SMTP server settings provided by choosing other SMTP and hosting the company.

To connect with any SMTP server these settings are required. Even, their values differ from one hosting company to other.

Setting up WP Mail SMTP on Bluehost

In the hosting companies, Bluehost is one of the popular hosting company in the world and it is also an officially recommended WordPress hosting provider.

Here we are going to discuss SMTP settings which you will be using to connect WP Mail SMTP to Bluehost SMTP server. 

  • SMTP Host -  mail.example.com
  • Encryption - TLS
  • SMTP Port - 587
  • SMTP Username - your email address
  • SMTP Password - Your account password

Setting up WP Mail SMTP on GoDaddy

In hosting word GoDaddy becomes very popular all over the world. It is the most popular domain name registrar, it manages more than 76 million domain name for 17.5 million customers. They have so many different hosting plans.

Here we are going to discuss the settings which we will be using to connect WP Mail SMTP with GoDaddy hosting plans.


  • SMTP Host - mail.example.com
  • Encryption - TLS
  • SMTP Port - 587
  • SMTP Username - your email address
  • SMTP Password - your account password

Setting up WP Mail SMTP on HostGatorThis one is also a popular company for WordPress hosting. Here we will illustrate the SMTP settings that will be used to connect WP Mail SMTP with HostGator servers.

  • SMTP Host - full.servername.com 
  • Encryption - SSL
  • SMTP Port - 465
  • SMTP Username - Your email address
  • SMTP Password - Your email account password

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