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title: 'SMTP plugins for WordPress – improve your admin email deliverability'
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date: '2024-03-05'
description: 'If you’re not receiving email notifications from your WordPress website, you might need to set up SMTP email sending.'
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# SMTP plugins for WordPress – improve your admin email deliverability

WordPress needs to send you emails about site mangement, password resets and notifications from your contact forms. If you’re running an ecommerce website then you’ll be sending customer notifications of their orders, and admin notifications for those orders.

WordPress uses PHP email sending by default, and this can appear to use a sending address that doesn’t even exist. Especially in light of recent [changes to mainstream email providers](https://byintention.co/email-deliverability-update-feb-2024/), you may not be receiving those emails to your inbox. What can we do?

**Full article at** [**Intention web design**](https://byintention.co/smtp-plugins-wordpress-improve-your-admin-email-deliverability/)

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