Oderland SMTP & Postal Mailer vs WP Mail Logging

Oderland SMTP & Postal Mailer is a plugin that allows you to send transactional emails using SMTP or Postal API. Easy-to-use for e-mail logging and making sure your e-mails make it all the way to your intended target. The plugin works with any SMTP mailer you’re using, including but not limited to Oderland Postal. What is SMTP and why do you need it? SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the standard that ensures that emails actually arrive at their destination. It’s a protocol that delivers your email between servers when you click “send” in your email client. You could say that with an SMTP plugin or service, you want to confirm to the email servers that what you’re sending isn’t spam, which lends authenticity to your mailings. Features: Send transactional emails via SMTP, Postal API or PHP mail() Multiple mail account support with priority-based failover Automatic retry on temporary failures with exponential backoff Comprehensive email logging with configurable retention Statistics dashboard — email volume over time, delivery success rates, per-account breakdown, failure analysis, recipient domain insights, and send time patterns CSV export of all dashboard statistics WordPress admin dashboard widget with 7-day email summary Engagement tracking (opens, clicks) for Postal accounts Postal webhook integration for delivery status tracking Per-account webhook debug logging for Postal accounts Secure credential storage with AES-256 encryption Protocol-level SMTP debugging Services Supported: SMTP – Connect to any SMTP server Postal – Integration with Postal mail delivery platform Local – Fallback to PHP mail() function

WP Mail Logging is the most popular plugin for logging emails sent from your WordPress site. Simply activate it and it will work immediately, no extra configuration is needed. Are your WordPress emails not being sent or delivered? Use this plugin to log all outgoing emails from your WordPress site. If there are any errors when sending the email from your site, our email logs will catch that error and display it to you. This will allow you to debug and fix your email sending issue. Did a client not receive your email? Our email logs allow you to resend any email that was sent from your site. No more lost emails! Do you just want to keep a record of all emails sent from your site? By default, WordPress and your web host do not log, store or keep track of emails sent from your website. This plugin will allow you to do just that. Our email logs will store every email that is sent from your WordPress site. You can search and view a particular email log, inspect its content or attachments, and even resend that email. What email information is logged? All emails sent from your WordPress site are logged. And here is the information that is stored: Email Subject Email Content (HTML or text) Email Attachments Email Headers (to, from, reply-to, cc, bcc, …) Error Message (in case there was an error while attempting to send the email) IP Address of originating server (can be enabled in the settings) Date and Time of the email Receiver (the TO email address) Why are my logged emails still not delivered to the inbox? There are a lot of steps that emails have to make in order to be delivered to the recipient’s inbox. When your WordPress site sends an email, there’s no guarantee it will be delivered. This is what the email’s journey looks like: WordPress creates an email WordPress passes the email to your website host and that email gets logged by our plugin The host server takes the email and sends it (SMTP or Mail Transfer Agent) Recipient server receives or blocks the email If the email is accepted, the spam filter decides if it goes to the inbox or the spam folder Recipients see the email and might open it. This plugin does not track delivery after step 2. If you have deliverability issues, we suggest installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin. WP Mail SMTP fixes WordPress email deliverability problems, you can choose between 12 email providers (Gmail, Outlook, SendLayer, Mailgun, …) to resolve your email sending issue and it’s super easy to set up. WP Mail SMTP is trusted by more than 3 million websites. Credits The plugin was created and launched in 2014 by Christian Zöller.