10 Best Easy WP SMTP Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Easy WP SMTP sits at #4 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Easy WP SMTP
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Post SMTP – Complete Email Deliverability and SMTP Solution with Email Logs, Alerts, Backup SMTP & Mobile App
4.7 (525) 300,000+ active installsImprove WordPress email deliverability. Connect Gmail SMTP, Microsoft 365, Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, Zoho, Amazon SES, etc. #1 WordPress SMTP Plugin.
#3 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. About half the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated 13 days ago.
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SureMail – SMTP and Email Logs Plugin with Amazon SES, Postmark, and Other Providers
4.7 (24) 200,000+ active installsSureMail – SMTP and Email Logs Plugin with Amazon SES, Postmark, and Other Providers
#7 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Solid Mail – SMTP email and logging made by SolidWP
4.2 (52) 60,000+ active installsEmail deliverability made SOLID. Connect to your chosen email provider with an intuitive set-it-and-forget-it SMTP plugin.
#8 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. 60,000+ installs against 500,000+, rated 4.2 against 4.6, last updated May 12, 2026.
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4.6 (67) 70,000+ active installsConfigure a SMTP server to send email from your WordPress site. Configure the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of the PHP mail() function.
#6 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. 70,000+ installs against 500,000+, last updated 17 days ago.
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Email Deliverability – SMTP Replacement, Email API Deliverability & Email Log
2.3 (16) 200,000+ active installsEffortlessly manage transactional emails with Email Deliverability. High deliverability, logs and statistics, and no SMTP plugins needed.
#9 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, last updated July 16, 2026.
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FluentSMTP – WP SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Cloudflare, toSend, Gmail and Any SMTP
4.8 (400) 600,000+ active installsFree WP Mail SMTP plugin - fix WordPress email deliverability with Gmail, Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Cloudflare, Postmark, Brevo and any SMTP.
#2 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 26 days ago.
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GoSMTP – SMTP for WordPress
4.3 (10) 500,000+ active installsSend emails from your WordPress site using your preferred SMTP provider like Gmail, Outlook, AWS, Zoho, SMTP.com, Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), Mailgun …
#5 in the WordPress.org Email Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated 27 days ago.
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4.9 (45) 6,000+ active installsConfigure SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending email via SSL/TLS (such as Gmail).
Shares the email, gmail, smtp tags on WordPress.org. 6,000+ installs against 500,000+, no update since July 22, 2024.
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4.1 (103) 10,000+ active installsConnect to Gmail SMTP server to automatically send email from your WordPress site. Configure wp_mail() to use SMTP with OAuth 2.0 authentication.
Shares the email, gmail, smtp tags on WordPress.org. 10,000+ installs against 500,000+, rated 4.1 against 4.6, last updated 12 days ago.
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Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging
4.8 (290) 100,000+ active installsCheck & Log email allows you to test if your website is correctly sending emails . Overriding of email headers and carbon copying to another address.
Shares the email, smtp tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 5 days ago.
Easy WP SMTP against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Easy WP SMTP vs Post SMTP500,000+ vs 300,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.7
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Easy WP SMTP vs SureMail500,000+ vs 200,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.7
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Easy WP SMTP vs Solid Mail500,000+ vs 60,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.2
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Easy WP SMTP vs SMTP Mailer500,000+ vs 70,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.6
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Easy WP SMTP vs Email Deliverability500,000+ vs 200,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 2.3
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Easy WP SMTP vs FluentSMTP500,000+ vs 600,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
Switching from Easy WP SMTP: common questions
What is the best alternative to Easy WP SMTP?
Post SMTP is the closest match: it shares the Email Plugins top 10 with Easy WP SMTP and has 300,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Easy WP SMTP alternative has the most users?
FluentSMTP, with 600,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Easy WP SMTP alternative is rated highest?
FluentSMTP, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 400 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Easy WP SMTP alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Easy WP SMTP score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Easy WP SMTP on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Post SMTP is the closest match to Easy WP SMTP by the data we track, and FluentSMTP has the widest reach with 600,000+ active installs. Check & Log Email shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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