MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Adrian Tobey
MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging is a WordPress app, with a 3.4 average rating from 10 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Adrian Tobey. With a rating of 3.4★ from 10 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 10 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Adrian Tobey — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.4★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (10) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging works
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SMTP & Email Delivery service for WordPress.
👉 Official Site | 👉 Pricing | 👉 WaaS
Is your WordPress email not reaching your customer’s inbox? We can help!
MailHawk is the FIRST email solution specializing in WordPress email delivery.
With MailHawk you can rest assured that your…
Account registration emails
WooCommerce order confirmation email
Password reset emails
LifterLMS notifications
LearnDash emails
Easy Digital Downloads renewal reminder emails
Groundhogg broadcast emails
MailPoet Newsletter emails
BuddyBoss emails
Will reach the recipients inbox!
📧 How does it work? MailHawk is an SMTP plugin & SMTP service all-in-one! Which means we’re your one stop shop for sending emails from WordPress.
To get started all you need to do is follow these steps:
Install MailHawk on your site!
Connect your WordPress site to the MailHawk service.
Pick a plan that fits your needs.
Configure your DNS records.
Start sending email!
🤷♂️ Who will benefit from MailHawk? Any WordPress website that needs to send emails needs a WordPress SMTP service like MailHawk!
It will especially help send emails from plugins like:
Groundhogg
WooCommerce
LearnDash
LifterLMS
BuddyBoss & BuddyPress
Easy Digital Downloads
And more…
🧑🤝🧑 Who is behind MailHawk? Our team is made up of people who’ve spent a long time in the email industry!
👨 Adrian Tobey, CEO & Creator of Groundhogg
There are many SMTP plugins and SMTP services, but you always have to get BOTH to work. With MailHawk you just sign up and start sending email right away. No extra services, zero complications. No one is as focused on WordPress email deliverability as we are.
👨 Marc Goldman, CEO of Send13 & Klean13
I’m super excited to bring my many years of email deliverability experience to the WordPress community so we can help more small business have their WordPress emails reach the inbox!
FEATURES MailHawk is making sending email from WordPress easier and more transparent with these innovative features.
📈 ANALYTICS & DASHBOARD REPORTING Wondering if your emails are reaching the inbox? You can see your deliverability rate right within the MailHawk dashboard on your WordPress site! Use this information to make adjustments to your emails to improve your deliverability!
🌎 DOMAIN AUTHENTICATION MailHawk provides SPF and DKIM authentication methods. This will drastically improve your email deliverability and provide you with a greater chance of skipping the spam folder.
🛡️ BLACKLIST/WHITELIST MANAGEMENT Stop spam from ruining your sender reputation by maintaining a blacklist of emails and domains which are causing you issues. Bounced emails can be automatically added to the blacklist so don’t have to worry about invalid email attacks.
📫 EMAIL LOGGING Keep track of your emails and debug email sending failures! You can resend emails, retry failed emails and even see which emails bounced! If you ever need to prove an email was sent you can check the log for up to 14 days after the email was sent! View content, headers and even the raw MIME message if you need to.
🌐 MULTISITE COMPATIBLE Are you using Multisite? MailHawk can be enabled across your entire multisite so you only have to configure it once!
🌐 WAAS COMPATIBLE Building a WaaS an not sure how to handle WordPress SMTP? Choose one of our WaaS plans and use MailHawk for all your customers!
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Frequently asked questions
What is MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging?
MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.4-star rating from 10 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Adrian Tobey.