Great… and free?! One shortcoming though…

I previously used another great SMTP plugin, albeit paid, for my client projects. I switched to using FluentSMTP recently and am impressed by it. I like all you get at the price tag but also the additional features such as real time alerts being and the ability to easily resend an email.

The shortcoming? It offers a “Fallback Connection” but that fallback/second connection cannot have the same from address as the primary connection. When do you need a fallback connection? When the primary one fails, but it’s a backup connection and should come from the same “From” address.

Also, the ability to route connections based on which program is sending it would be very good. (Another major, paid, WP SMTP plugin does exactly this). So, emails send through, say, Amazon for all emails except if they come from an abandoned cart plugin which routes through, say, Sendgrid. This allows us to keep transactional and marketing messages separated which maintains our transactional sending reputation.

This is a great alternative but falls short in these areas.

• This topic was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by ssorcdivad. Reason: I found a shortcoming!