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Dragon SMTP

Reliable SMTP email delivery for WordPress, with a live SMTP transcript for diagnosing failures, deliverability DNS checks, and one-click import.

Send a test email and see the full live SMTP conversation line by line (credentials redacted) — the fastest way to diagnose why mail isn't sending.

Built-in SPF, DMARC and DKIM checks for your sending domain, with plain-English advice on exactly what DNS records to publish.

Features

What Dragon SMTP does

Reliable email delivery for WordPress. Route wp_mail() through any SMTP server, diagnose failures with a live SMTP transcript, check your deliverability DNS, and import settings from other SMTP plugins in one click.

Any SMTP Server

Host, port, SSL/TLS encryption, authentication. Works with any mailbox provider or transactional service that offers SMTP credentials

Live SMTP Transcript

The test email tool captures the full client/server SMTP conversation (with credentials redacted) so you can see exactly why a send fails

Deliverability Check

Verifies your sending domain publishes SPF and DMARC DNS records

One-Click Import

Migrates your settings from WP Mail SMTP, FluentSMTP, Easy WP SMTP, or Post SMTP

Force From Address

Optionally override the from name/email that other plugins set

wp-config Overrides

Lock any setting with a DSM_* constant for config-managed or multi-environment sites

Encrypted Credentials

Your SMTP password is stored encrypted, never in plain text

Dragon SMTP Pro

Pro add-on for Dragon SMTP. API sending (Amazon SES, Postmark, Mailgun, Brevo, Resend), automatic failover, duplicate-safe retries, and failure alerts — one licence with everything included, security-audited, nag-free.

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Guides

Put Dragon SMTP to work

Step-by-step guides from the team that builds it. All guides

Requirements

  • · WordPress 6.2 or newer
  • · PHP 8.0 or newer
  • · WordPress 6.2+ · PHP 8.0+

Changelog

v1.0.13

A quiet pointer to the Pro add-on: an Upgrade to Pro link on the Plugins screen, a one-line note at the foot of the plugin's screens, and a single dismissible notice once the plugin has done its job. Nothing in the free plugin is locked or changed, and all three disappear when Pro is active. - New `dragonsmtp_test_email_sent` action fires when a test email goes out.

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