WP Mail Logging vs WPO365 | MICROSOFT 365 GRAPH MAILER

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.

WPO365 | MS GRAPH MAILER provides you with a modern, reliable and efficient way to send WordPress transactional emails from one of your Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online / Mail enabled accounts. The plugin re-configures your WordPress website to send emails using the Microsoft Graph API instead of – for example – SMTP. Sending WordPress emails using the Microsoft Graph API has become the only available alternative after Microsoft has disabled basic authentication (username and password) over the SMTP protocol. DELIVERY Send WordPress transactional emails from one of your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online / Mail enabled accounts using Microsoft Graph instead of – for example – SMTP. Choose between delegated (send mail as a user) and application-level (send mail as any user) type permissions. Or: Select either a Microsoft 365 account or a personal Microsoft account, like Hotmail.com or Outlook.com, to send WordPress emails. Or: Configure RBAC for Exchange Online and authorize as an application but with a limited scope e.g. one specific mailbox. SEND AS HTML Send emails formatted as HTML. SAVE TO SENT ITEMS Emails sent will be saved in the account’s mailbox in the Sent Items folder, further helping to track (successful) mail delivery. ATTACHMENTS Send files from your WordPress website as attachments. WPO365 INSIGHTS See what matters, when it happens Track key WPO365 events like sent emails with WPO365 Insights more CONFIGURATION / TEST EMAIL DELIVERY Easy configuration with detailed step-by-step Getting started guide and video. Send test email to recipients incl. CC, BCC and attachment. ADD FUNCTIONALITY WITH PREMIUM EXTENSIONS The following features can be unlocked with the WPO365 | MAIL extension. WPO365 INSIGHTS Get WPO35 Alerts in your inbox when email delivery is failing more Auto-Retry Log every email sent from your WordPress website, review errors and (automatically) try to send unsuccessfully sent mails again. LARGE ATTACHMENTS Add support to send WordPress emails with attachments larger than 3 MB using Microsoft Graph. SEND FROM ALIAS Send emails from an alias address (but submit to Microsoft Graph as the authorized user). SEND AS / SEND ON BEHALF OF Send email as / on behalf of another user or distribution list. SHARED MAILBOX Send email from Microsoft 365 Shared Mailbox. STAGING MODE Mail Staging Mode is useful for debugging and staging environments. WordPress emails will be logged and saved in the database instead of being sent. DYNAMIC SEND-FROM Allow forms to override “From” address e.g allow Contact Form 7 to dynamically configure the account used to send the email from (requires application-level Mail.Send permissions). MAIL THROTTLE Throttle the number of emails sent from your website per minute. WP-CONFIG FOR AAD SECRETS Further improve overall security by choosing to store Azure Active Directory secrets in your WordPress WP-Config.php (on disk) and have those secrets removed from the database. SEND AS BCC Send emails as BCC instead and prevent reply-to-all mail pollution. REPLY-TO Configure a default reply-to mail address if this should differ from the account’s mail address that is used to send WordPress transactional emails from. Prerequisites We have tested our plugin with WordPress >= 5.0 and PHP >= 5.6.40. You need to be an Entra ID Tenant Administrator to configure both Azure Active Directory and the plugin. Support We will go to great length trying to support you if the plugin doesn’t work as expected. Go to our Support Page to get in touch with us. We haven’t been able to test our plugin in all endless possible WordPress configurations and versions so we are keen to hear from you and happy to learn! Feedback We are keen to hear from you so share your feedback with us on LinkedIn and help us get better! Open Source When you’re a developer and interested in the code you should have a look at our repo over at WordPress.