WPO365 | MICROSOFT 365 GRAPH MAILER vs Zoho Mail for WordPress

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.

Zoho Mail for WordPress Zoho Mail Plugin helps you to configure your Zoho Mail account in your WordPress site, to send emails from your Site. It is recommended to use authorized server for sending emails from websites, instead of using generic hosting servers. It is possible to misuse unauthorized and unauthenticated configuration and harm the reputation of your domain/ website when using generic servers. Zoho Mail plugin can help to ensure that the emails are sent from your account using Zoho Mail API’s. PRE-REQUISITES A Zoho Mail Account A self-hosted WordPress site PHP 5.6 or later ADVANTAGES OF ZOHO MAIL PLUGIN Zoho Mail plugin makes use of OAuth 2.0 protocol to access Zoho Mail API. This ensures a highly secure authentication process where the Username or password is not stored so cannot be misused. Zoho Mail plugin has customized the PHPMailer’s code library, used in WordPress for sending email. By using ’wp_mail’ function of WordPress, Zoho Mail plugin handles the custom send mail action anywhere from the entire site, without having to change/ configure in every occurrence. ZOHO MAIL API FEATURES Zoho Mail API is authenticated using OAuth 2.0 protocol. You can configure your Zoho Mail account in your website to send email using Zoho Mail API. The emails sent will be available in the corresponding Zoho Mail account’s Sent folder. ZOHO MAIL PLUGIN PARAMETERS Where is your account hosted? :The region where your Zoho Account data resides. Client ID :The Client ID of your Zoho Mail API. Client Secret : The Client secret of your API. Authorized Redirect URI : Authorized Redirect URL obtained from your website that is used to create Client ID. From Email Address :The Email address that will be used to send all the outgoing emails from your website. From Name :The Name that will be shown as the display name while sending all emails from your website. ZOHO MAIL PLUGIN TEST EMAIL After configuration, you can test the plugin. Navigate to the Zoho Mail – Test Email page in your Website settings. – To : Email address of the recipient. – Subject : Subject of the email. – Content :The message or body of the email. For in detail instructions on how to set up Zoho Mail plugin, visit Zoho Mail plugin page . Note : Sending emails through Zoho Mail is subjective to our Usage Policy restrictions. Please refer to our Usage Policy details here.