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About Mail logging – WP Mail Catcher
The Logging Your Mail plugin is a lightweight tool that allows you to log and save your contact form emails to your WordPress database. It also provides debugging capabilities and allows you to resend backed up emails with one click. With this plugin, you can easily manage and monitor your form submissions, and even send emails directly from the WordPress interface.Screenshots




Frequently asked questions
What is WP Mail Catcher?
WP Mail Catcher is a fast, lightweight WordPress plugin designed for logging and debugging emails. It helps prevent email loss and allows for easy management of form submissions.
How do I use WP Mail Catcher?
Simply install and activate the plugin. All contact form emails will be logged and saved to your database without any additional configuration required.
What features does WP Mail Catcher offer?
Key features include zero setup, minimalistic design (under 140kb), bulk email export to CSV, ability to compose and resend emails, debugging tools, and user permission management for logs.
Can I resend emails with this plugin?
Yes, you can resend backed-up emails with a single click. The plugin also allows you to resend emails in bulk.
Is WP Mail Catcher free?
Yes, the WP Mail Catcher plugin is completely free to use.
Changelog
2.1.10
- Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability, reported by Le Ngoc Anh via Patchstack
2.1.9
- Fix: When stopped a log from being saved via
wp_mail_catcher_before_success_log_save, it now returns the unaltered mail
2.1.8
- New: Added new hook
wp_mail_catcher_before_success_log_save - New: Added new hook
wp_mail_catcher_before_error_log_save
2.1.7
- Security: Added additional nonce checks to setting actions
2.1.6
- Fix: Logs not appearing in WP versions under 6.2
2.1.5
- Fix: Html emails are now decoded before being rendered
- Fix: Updated serialisation to use maybe_unserialize for extra compatibility
2.1.4
- Security: Fixed Injection vulnerability, reported by Muhammad Daffa via Patchstack
2.1.3
- Fix: Improved HTML email detection
- Fix: Improved XSS filtering
2.1.2
- Fix: Escaping no longer mangles exports
2.1.1
- Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability, reported by Alex Thomas of Wordfence
2.1.0
- New: Added support for viewing encoded non-ASCII characters in the subject line on the log table
- New: Added resend link inside of details modal
- Deprecation: Increased supported PHP version from 7.2 to 7.4
2.0.5
- Fix: Improved error handling when attempting to save a log without running the migration
- New: Added ability to force rerun database migrations
- Improvement: Database migrations will now happen automatically on plugin upgrade
2.0.4
- Fix: Resolved memory leak when saving a new log
2.0.3
- Fix: Auto deleting clearing all logs
2.0.2
- Improvement: Reduced memory usage when deleting expired logs
- Fix: Emails sent with the to address formatted with angled brackets are now escaped
- Possible fix: Aligned wp_mail handling to be much closer to older version as some people reported issues
2.0.1
- Fix: Bulk actions (delete, export, resend) now works
2.0.0
- Deprecation: Increased supported PHP version from 5.6 to 7.2
- New: Added partial lazy loading to reduce database strain
- New: Can now manually trigger removing of old logs
- New: Added support for wp_mail_content_type filter
- New: Implemented database upgrade system
- Fix: Old logs not being automatically deleted
- Fix: Pagination now works on search results or other filters
- Fix: BuddyPress error exception
- Fix: Re-implemented resending HTML emails
- Fix: PHP notice appearing on settings page under certain circumstances
- Fix: Scrolling not working correctly on mobile and tablets
1.5.4
- Fix: Auto delete wasn’t always deleting Logs
- Fix: Fixed header syncing issue
1.5.3
- Fix: Cron job issue preventing logs from being auto deleted
- Fix: v1.5.0 broke compatibility with some other mail plugins
1.5.2
- Fix: PHP notice that appears if additional_headers column is corrupted
1.5.1
- Fix: Auto deleting timer isn’t pulled through on settings page. Thanks to @oginomizuho
1.5.0
- New: Added beta BuddyPress support
- New: Can now auto delete messages that are over a specific age
- Fix: Minute/seconds being slightly off in export
1.4.1
- Fix: Log exports now show the correct date and time
1.4.0
- New: Refreshed log table UI
- New: Added 2 new actions
wp_mail_catcher_mail_successandwp_mail_catcher_mail_failed
1.3.10
- Performance: Email previews are now loaded lazily
1.3.9
- Fix: Auto delete notification is always shown regardless of settings
1.3.8
- Fix: Logs per page screen option was being ignored
- Compatibility: Added support for WordPress 5.5
1.3.7
- New: Can now see raw html code of an email if it’s html enabled (open a message and go to the Debug tab)
- Update: npm dependencies updated
1.3.6
- Fix: Object serialization issue stability when a third party modifies the object
- Fix: Minor typo
1.3.5
- New: French translation
1.3.4
- New: Added search functionality, supports partial and exact matching for: to, subject, message, attachment names and email headers
1.3.3
- Fix: Improved support for multisite
1.3.2
- Fix: Child CSS class not matching parent
1.3.1
- Fix: Improved clarity of ‘from’ header
- Fix: Fixed issue with bulk deletion
1.3.0
- New: ‘From’ column now included in admin table
- New: Screen options have been added that allow you to pick which columns are visible along with the number of logs per page
- Fix: Fixed an issue adding an attachment in the ‘new message’ modal
- Fix: Fixed custom headers being rendered incorrectly in the ‘new message’ modal
- Fix: Fixed bug whereby tables were not dropped when deleting a multi-site
1.2.4
- New: Exact time (including timestamp) mail was sent can now be seen in the debug panel and when you hover over the value in the sent column of the table
- Improvement: Significantly reduced file size of plugin
- Fix: Fixed error when calling wp_mail and passing an attachment as a string
- Fix: Namespaced CSS
- Fix: Fixed incorrect time being rendered
- Fix: Sorting columns now works
1.2.3
- New: When the number of logs exceeds a specific value (currently set to 100) then a warning appears. Upon trying to do an ‘export all’ a dialog opens to batch the exporting
- Fix: Fixed an issue with interacting with messages beyond the first page
- Fix: Non-html emails now have their spacing rendered correctly
1.2.2
- New: Added new filtering system that allows only successful or failed messages to be seen
- New: Added ‘export all’ button
- Improvement: Removed carbon dependency, reducing the plugin size significantly from 322kb to 53kb (zipped)
- Improvement: Added basic caching system so repeated, identical database calls are avoided
1.2.1
- Fix: Hotfix for html emails not rendering correctly
1.2.0
- New: Added support for foreign characters
- New: Added link to settings page from the plugins page
- Fix: Fixed issue where non-html emails lost their line breaks
1.1.0
- Fix: ‘Failed security check’ message appearing when trying to perform any bulk actions
- Fix: Exporting with no attachments but with additional headers causes the wrong column to be populated
- Fix: HTML emails cause modal styling problem
- Fix: Long file names cause the content to spill over modal
- Fix: Admin notices makes ‘New Message’ button fall out of alignment