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MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging

An easier SMTP service for WordPress. Improve your WordPress email deliverability!

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Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Current version1.3.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.8
Minimum stackWP 5.0 · PHP 7.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update15 Sept 20251y ago
Active installations300Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.4 / 5 from 10 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records MailHawk — Simple SMTP, Email Delivery, and Email Logging version 1.3.5 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.

Overview

About this plugin

SMTP & Email Delivery service for WordPress.

👉 Official Site | 👉 Pricing | 👉 WaaS

Is your WordPress email not reaching your customer’s inbox? We can help!

MailHawk is the FIRST email solution specializing in WordPress email delivery.

With MailHawk you can rest assured that your…

  • Account registration emails
  • WooCommerce order confirmation email
  • Password reset emails
  • LifterLMS notifications
  • LearnDash emails
  • Easy Digital Downloads renewal reminder emails
  • Groundhogg broadcast emails
  • MailPoet Newsletter emails
  • BuddyBoss emails

Will reach the recipients inbox!

📧 How does it work?

MailHawk is an SMTP plugin & SMTP service all-in-one! Which means we’re your one stop shop for sending emails from WordPress.

To get started all you need to do is follow these steps:

  • Install MailHawk on your site!
  • Connect your WordPress site to the MailHawk service.
  • Pick a plan that fits your needs.
  • Configure your DNS records.
  • Start sending email!

🤷‍♂️ Who will benefit from MailHawk?

Any WordPress website that needs to send emails needs a WordPress SMTP service like MailHawk!

It will especially help send emails from plugins like:

  • Groundhogg
  • WooCommerce
  • LearnDash
  • LifterLMS
  • BuddyBoss & BuddyPress
  • Easy Digital Downloads
  • And more…

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Who is behind MailHawk?

Our team is made up of people who’ve spent a long time in the email industry!

👨 Adrian Tobey, CEO & Creator of Groundhogg

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There are many SMTP plugins and SMTP services, but you always have to get BOTH to work. With MailHawk you just sign up and start sending email right away. No extra services, zero complications.

No one is as focused on WordPress email deliverability as we are.

👨 Marc Goldman, CEO of Send13 & Klean13

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I’m super excited to bring my many years of email deliverability experience to the WordPress community so we can help more small business have their WordPress emails reach the inbox!

FEATURES

MailHawk is making sending email from WordPress easier and more transparent with these innovative features.

📈 ANALYTICS & DASHBOARD REPORTING

Wondering if your emails are reaching the inbox? You can see your deliverability rate right within the MailHawk dashboard on your WordPress site! Use this information to make adjustments to your emails to improve your deliverability!

🌎 DOMAIN AUTHENTICATION

MailHawk provides SPF and DKIM authentication methods. This will drastically improve your email deliverability and provide you with a greater chance of skipping the spam folder.

🛡️ BLACKLIST/WHITELIST MANAGEMENT

Stop spam from ruining your sender reputation by maintaining a blacklist of emails and domains which are causing you issues. Bounced emails can be automatically added to the blacklist so don’t have to worry about invalid email attacks.

📫 EMAIL LOGGING

Keep track of your emails and debug email sending failures! You can resend emails, retry failed emails and even see which emails bounced! If you ever need to prove an email was sent you can check the log for up to 14 days after the email was sent!

View content, headers and even the raw MIME message if you need to.

🌐 MULTISITE COMPATIBLE

Are you using Multisite? MailHawk can be enabled across your entire multisite so you only have to configure it once!

🌐 WAAS COMPATIBLE

Building a WaaS an not sure how to handle WordPress SMTP? Choose one of our WaaS plans and use MailHawk for all your customers!

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • smtp plugin
  • wordpress smtp
  • wp mail smtp
  • email
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 7.0
Update activity15 Sept 20251y ago

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