Send WordPress email through Sendwax with Easy WP SMTP
The plainest of them. Nothing to configure beyond the connection.
The values
In Easy WP SMTP → Settings, choose Other SMTP — not a named provider, since we are not in the list yet — and enter:
| Host | smtp.sendwax.com |
|---|---|
| Port | 587 |
| Encryption | TLS / STARTTLS |
| Username | sendwax |
| Password | a send-only API key from API keys in the dashboard |
| From | an address you have approved under Senders |
The username is literally sendwax for everybody — the key is what
identifies your account. Use a send-only key: it can send mail and nothing else, so a key
sitting in a settings screen on shared hosting cannot read your contacts.
Step by step
- Set the From address to an approved sender and force it.
- Choose Other SMTP, then fill in the values in the table above.
- Choose TLS for encryption — not SSL. SSL means port 465, which is a different thing we do not offer yet.
TLS here means STARTTLS
Plugins use "SSL" for implicit TLS on port 465 and "TLS" for STARTTLS on 587. We serve 587. Picking SSL with port 587 produces a connection that hangs and then times out, with nothing useful in any log.
Checking it worked
Send yourself a test from the plugin, then look at your Sendwax activity log.
What else to know
We do not relay your message byte for byte — we read it and build a new one that our DKIM signature covers, which is what makes the reporting and the unsubscribe handling work. It costs you inline image placement, threading and a few other things, all listed on the SMTP relay page. Worth two minutes before you point production at it.
If you are writing the code rather than configuring somebody else's, the API is the better door: a message id per recipient and an error you can read, instead of a three-digit reply your framework swallowed.
Other setups
- WP Mail SMTP — The most installed SMTP plugin on WordPress. Takes about two minutes.
- FluentSMTP — Free, open source, and happy to hold several connections at once.
- Post SMTP — Keeps its own email log and can alert you when a send fails.
- Gravity SMTP — From the Gravity Forms team, and the right choice if your forms are theirs.
- WooCommerce — Order confirmations, shipping notices, password resets. The ones customers notice.
- Postfix — Everything on the box — cron, monitoring, mail(1) — goes out properly signed.
- Laravel — Two lines of .env. Or use our package and skip SMTP entirely.
- Python — The standard library, no dependencies.
- Nodemailer — The usual way a Node app sends mail.