Customer LoginNewsletters Config: General Mail Settings
Newletters > Configuration > General Mail Settings
Newsletters RSS Feed
This is set to “Off” by default. Turning this “On” will show an RSS feed of newsletters. i.e. http://domain.com/?feed=newsletters .
Administrator Email
This is the email that will be used as the Administrator’s email account. All admin notifications from the plugin are sent to this email address. Your From address (see below) can be a different email which is used to send the emails.
From Address
This is the email that the client will see the email coming from. i.e. Who sent the Newsletter. The email address from which emails will be sent. If you’re going to use SMTP authentication, please try to keep the SMTP Username the same as this value. By default, your WordPress administrator email is used for this
From Name
This is the Name of the Person who sent the Newsletter. The name of the website/business that you’re sending from. This value will appear in the “From” field of your recipients’ email-/webmail client. By default, your blog name is used for this value.
Email Tracking
This set to “On” by default and allows you to invisibly track newsletters to tell you how many emails were (not) read. This tracking is imbedded inside the Newsletter automatically when turned on. Remember that you have to put the shortcode [wpmltrack] into your email/newsletter or theme in order for an email to be tracked.
Server Type
This is a drop down list and is set to cPanel (or other). If you use Plesk and to administer your site then this should be changed to Plesk. It is used specifically for the CGI piping bounce management feature. Some users do not have Administration Panels. If in doubt please contact your Service Provider (ISP).
Send Multipart Emails
This setting is “On” by default. You can turn it “Off” if you wish. With this setting turned on, the plugin will automatically send out multi MIME emails with an HTML and a plain text part. As a result, the client software will decide which one to use. Some users’ email clients don’t support HTML emails so the plain text part will be automatically loaded and they won’t have to see all the HTML markup in the email. It is recommended that you turn this on!
Mail Type
This set to “WP Mail” by default and allows you to select what type of protocol is used when sending out email. The other two options are SMTP and Gmail SMTP. WP Mail is the best setting as it sends through your wp_mail() function and is most likely to work without problems. It is the most reliable.
SMTP Host Name
This is set to “localhost” by default. If you’re going to use an SMTP server, you’ll need to specify a mail server. In most cases, it will be “mail.domain.com” where “domain.com” should be replaced with the domain on which the mail server is running. If you’re not sure what your SMTP host name is, please contact your hosting provider.
For Gmail, you’ll need to specify “smtp.gmail.com” as the SMTP host name. In case it doesn’t work, you could try “ssl://smtp.gmail.com” or even “smtp.googlemail.com”. Your hosting account has to have socket connections enabled in order for this to work. It will not work on GoDaddy since GoDaddy doesn’t allow socket connections.
SMTP Port
The SMTP port number to connect to. By default, this is set to 25 but if your email server uses a different port for sending emails via SMTP, you’ll need to change this value.
SMTP Authentication
You can turn SMTP authentication On/Off. Turning it On will request an SMTP username and password from you and it will use these values to login/authenticate with the SMTP server before sending out emails. This is a secure way of sending out emails though it might take a little longer than sending without authentication in most cases.
SMTP Username
With SMTP authentication turned On, you’ll need to enter an SMTP username which could be the email address of a valid email mailbox on the server. If you’re using Gmail, it is your full Gmail email address ie. email@gmail.com. It works in conjunction with the SMTP password mentioned below.
SMTP Password
The password which should be used in conjunction with the SMTP username email address mentioned above.
Email Priority
This a dropdown list. The default is set to “Normal”. This can be change to High or Low priority alternatives. This option will set the email priority which will be displayed to recipients. i.e. High, Normal, Low.
