How to configure WordPress to use SMTP on Winhost

**This article assumes that you have a WordPress site installed at Winhost. If you don’t and want to install WordPress, go to your Winhost control panel and find WordPress under the App Installer.**

To begin you will need to log in to the Admin section of your WordPress site which can be accessed by adding /wp-admin after your domain name such as: HostingAccountDomain.com/wp-admin

Enter your Username and Password and Log In to be taken to the Administrator Dashboard.

From the Dashboard, head down to Plugins – hover over it for a second and in the sub-menu click on “Add New”.

From the Plugins store go to the search bar in the top right and enter “WP Mail SMTP”. The one you’re looking for should be the first option with the bird as the icon. Go ahead and click on “Install Now”. Wait for the plugin to install and click Activate once it has installed.

Now you’re going to want to go to settings and you’ll notice there is now the option for “WP Mail SMTP” Settings.

Click on this to be taken to the screen below:

On this page you can adjust some mail settings. The one we want to focus on is in the Mailer section. We want to change this to “Other SMTP” where the red arrow is pointing to above.

Once you change that, new settings will appear that you must fill out.

SMTP Host: This can be found in the Winhost Control Panel under Email. You will see your Email server information next to SMTP and should look like m##.internalmailserver.net

Encryption: Leave at None for now

SMTP Port: 25

Auto TLS: Leave this on

Authentication: You’ll want to click this “ON”

SMTP Username: Your full email address

SMTP Password: The password for your email account.

After entering your Email information in all the fields click on Save Settings. This will take you back to the top of the page and everything should be all set (if there was no information entered incorrectly).

You should see a tab for Email Test, go ahead and click the tab and enter an email account you have access to and click Send Email to send a test message. You should be receiving an email that looks like below.

If you received this test email, then congratulations! You are all set to send and receive email through your WordPress site.

If you did not and received an error somewhere along the way, submit a support ticket and we will help walk you through the process.

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