Hi all. Im trying to set up send grid to be able to have an SMTP for my WordPress site, but im having some issues. Can someone please explain the process and/or how to set this up correctly?
Its for a client and his domain is with godaddy, and also his office 365 emails. (god knows why). However, my domain is with godaddy but my 365 is with office, and its working like a charm. do you think that’s the issue?
basically emails are not sending from WordPress alone, so have installed Post SMTP Plugin, but it wants to use SendGrid. Im trying to set up SendGrid but its not very user friendly. Hoping someone can point me in the reign direction or show some form of example.
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I had the same issue about 6 months ago. Took me a while to work it out, but I was exactly the same as yours. Pretty certain it was GoDaddy and outlook that were the issues.
Not a great of help but we ended up moving his stuff away from GoDaddy, mainly because I was fed up by then, I’m sure there might be some sort’ve workaround.
Are you on GoDaddy? They don’t allow anything going out on the email ports. You’ll have to use their servers. I can imagine some other providers might have similar policies in place.
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It’s not a question where the domain is registered, it’s a matter of where the website is hosted. It’s often the same provider, but it’s also a good practice to keep them separate.
By the way, what do you mean by “to be able to have an SMTP” ?
If email deliverability is important to you DON’T use SendGrid. Their IPs get blacklisted ALL THE TIME. We used free SendGrid for all our clients until now, it’s been a mess. At some point for a particular WooCommerce webshop 75% of the outgoing mails were not delivered.
I agree completely with this. Had same issues. Switched to free version with Sendinblue. All good again.