Comments on: Ditch your SMTP plugin! MailPoet now sends transactional emails

By: Laura Nelson

Laura Nelson — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:15:39 +0000

In reply to Robin B.

Hi Robin,

If you use the MailPoet Sending Service (more info here: https://www.mailpoet.com/wordpress-email-delivery-infrastructure/) then you’ll be able to comfortably send ~50,000 emails per hour.

If you’re relying on your host or a 3rd party SMTP solution to send your emails, then the speed of sending will be determined by that provider, and not MailPoet. We’re not able to alter the limits set by 3rd parties.

Hope that helps!

By: Robin B

Robin B — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:16:55 +0000

Hello!

My question concerns how MailPoet handles the 500 outbound emails/hour limit on my site if I want to send an email blast out to 750-1200 users at once?

By: Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 04:09:51 +0000

The advanced settings seem to ignore The default WordPress sending method. It is overridden by Send With settings.

Since we are using gapps, we are sending mails through the google api which your SMTP doesn’t have the option.

By: Laura Nelson

Laura Nelson — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:28:58 +0000

In reply to Dan.

Hello Dan,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your kind feedback. I’m happy to hear you otherwise like MailPoet.

We are aware that the transactional email feature does have limitations for more elaborate use cases, and do agree that currently, MailPoet may not be able to conveniently handle such more elaborate uses. In such cases, a dedicated SMTP plugin may still indeed be a more fitting approach for your business.

We have designed the transactional feature to be as simple as we can make it, and it does fit most common transactional email needs, such as reliably delivering WordPress or WooCommerce emails. Yet, we do recognize that advanced uses still need further improvements.

Just to confirm, could you please let us know what aspects of the feature cause issues to your particular use case? Feedback like yours helps us plan future MailPoet improvements.

Thanks again,

Laura

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 03:07:30 +0000

Not Good at all.
The newsletter part is great, improving designs on transactional emails is great too BUT your sending implementation is terrible. It gets in the way of many other tools as you have already been advised about.
The Feedback and Suggestion site is full of it.
Leave the PHP Mailer alone. I like a SMTP plugin with feature you don’t have.
I like your Newsletter and design of emails, also the Woocommers integration.
Why can’t you co-exist with other SMTP plugins?

By: Stephen Booth

Stephen Booth — Tue, 04 May 2021 15:17:01 +0000

I am very interested in this development, thank you.
I use the 3rd party Amelia booking platform which is set up to use php Mail. This gives problems with transactional eMails going to spam folder. I am looking into solutions and this seems to be an ideal one.
Amelia settings include phpMail, WP Mail, SMPT and Mailgun. Which of these should I use to make sure the MailPoet settings overule these?
Regards, Steve

By: Laura Nelson

Laura Nelson — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:11:33 +0000

In reply to Sarina.

Hi Sarina,

We recommend you get in touch with our Support team about this :) They’ll be able to help diagnose what’s causing this to happen.

Here’s the link: https://www.mailpoet.com/support/

Thanks :)

By: Sarina

Sarina — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 03:14:58 +0000

In reply to Jose. Hello Jose, We experience the same issue. Did someone in the support could solve the problem? At the moment we deactivated MailPoet, but that's not a solution ;-)

By: beit

beit — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:39:39 +0000

The smtp solution of MailPoet don’t work with wishlist and got conflict
“The MailPoet plugin modifies the WordPress mail functions by adding extra functionality that is normally added by other plugins. This prevents the WishList Member plugin to add similar functionality to WordPress because WordPress only allows one plugin to take control of that functionality ( such as registration email and so on) ”
so if yo use WishList (and probably other membership pluggins) you’ll have to switch back to classic smtp solutions

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:50:41 +0000

Your documentation about transactional emails says this: “When sending transactional emails with MailPoet 3 and the active sending method is MailPoet Sending Service, MailPoet does not include attachments in the emails that are sent…”

Does that mean that transactional emails sent using a different method (e.g., Amazon SES) CAN have attachments? Either way, you should clarify your documentation about this matter.