Steals your email address without asking, violates GDPR
As soon as activating the plug-in, it will scrape your email address from your Wordpress installation user profile and start sending you emails & periodic newsletter spam without explicit permission. There is no “enter email address” field, no “subscribe” button, no “verify email address” button… it just automatically starts sending emails. Even if you don’t click the link in the verification email, other emails start arriving. If there was an explicit opt-in for that kind of thing it would be fine, but automatically doing it violates GDPR laws.
Unsecure: Absolutely loved this plugin but..
I really loved this plugin and the features for the free and pro version, but the security in this plugin has been an ongoing joke for a really long time now. At one point we got critical updated from WordFence every 2 weeks and had to update and test a huge amount of sites, to stay secure. With the latest critical update, which the danish intelligence service also warned about, we decided to use the time and money to change all sites. Review updated from 5 stars to 1 star. Original review from +2 years ago:Been using this plugin for SMTP for ages and on +100 sites. I absolutely love it and it works every time. BUT in the newest version, where we migrated to a new log, the “resend” function is missing? I really need this, for the few times the SMTP settings change and emails are not send out correctly. The feature list still include it, so where is it?
nicolaifriis
November 13, 2025
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3 replies
Compared to the biggest SMTP plugin! (read this!)
I am not allowed to mention competitors. But the MOST DOWNLOADED smtp plugin DID NOT work on my website. A quite normal website setup, not to much that can collide so to speak. I even found the line of code that made it not work and reported it. The support did not care/take time to look in to it even if other people wrote they had the same problem. I tried some other plugins that did not feel right. Tried this plugin AND IT JUST WORKS! Simple setup. Nice UI/UX. I can double check that the mails are sent in a orderly fashion. I wish nothing but the best for the plugin creator/creators. This plugin need to get more downloads. Best regards, Flamuren ([URL removed by moderators])
A great product and great service, too
As I have been building my new sites, I have looked for a plugin that would work on my multisite network. Post SMTP does! But somewhere along the way, I made a newbie mistake and couldn’t fix it. No problem! Mubashir talked me through some possibilities, but when I just couldn’t get it working again, he did. He was so patient, waiting until I understood one thing before giving me any other thoughts. I may be a newbie, but I made the right choice in Post SMTP.
Great debugging tool
The built-in email log has saved me multiple times when troubleshooting delivery issues. Much better visibility than what I had before switching from another SMTP plugin.
they are very helpful
I’m a bit of a beginner, and I have to update my PHP. The PHP checker told me that this wasn’t compatible with the latest version of PHP, which I thought was a bit odd because it had been updated only five days before; it didn’t seem like an abandoned plugin. I wrote to them, and they’ve been really helpful and said it’s fully compatible with all the latest versions of PHP. Very nice people, thank you very much for the support.
A great product and great service, too
As I have been building my new sites, I have looked for a plugin that would work on my multisite network. Post SMTP does! But somewhere along the way, I made a newbie mistake and couldn’t fix it. No problem! Mubashir talked me through some possibilities, but when I just couldn’t get it working again, he did. He was so patient, waiting until I understood one thing before giving me any other thoughts. I may be a newbie, but I made the right choice in Post SMTP.
Great debugging tool
The built-in email log has saved me multiple times when troubleshooting delivery issues. Much better visibility than what I had before switching from another SMTP plugin.
they are very helpful
I’m a bit of a beginner, and I have to update my PHP. The PHP checker told me that this wasn’t compatible with the latest version of PHP, which I thought was a bit odd because it had been updated only five days before; it didn’t seem like an abandoned plugin. I wrote to them, and they’ve been really helpful and said it’s fully compatible with all the latest versions of PHP. Very nice people, thank you very much for the support.
Bloat
20mb zipped file while others just are a fraction of this. Stay away from poorly coded plugins.
No disclosure of extra cost for 365
Dishonest about the cost of product. It’s free unless you have 365. Then it cost a yearly amount. They’re just fleecing people who they think will pay anyway.
Steals your email address without asking, violates GDPR
As soon as activating the plug-in, it will scrape your email address from your Wordpress installation user profile and start sending you emails & periodic newsletter spam without explicit permission. There is no “enter email address” field, no “subscribe” button, no “verify email address” button… it just automatically starts sending emails. Even if you don’t click the link in the verification email, other emails start arriving. If there was an explicit opt-in for that kind of thing it would be fine, but automatically doing it violates GDPR laws.
