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About Swift SMTP (formerly Welcome Email Editor)
Swift SMTP is a free and simple SMTP plugin for WordPress that allows you to configure custom SMTP settings for your website. It also provides email logging and the ability to customize WordPress welcome emails and the reset password email.Screenshots

Frequently asked questions
What is Swift SMTP?
Swift SMTP is a free and simple SMTP plugin for WordPress that helps ensure reliable email delivery from your website.
What email settings can I customize with Swift SMTP?
You can configure custom SMTP settings including "From" email address and name, email content type, SMTP host, encryption and port (SSL or TSL), and SMTP authentication with username and password.
Does Swift SMTP offer email logging?
Yes, Swift SMTP includes a new feature for email logging, which allows you to log all outgoing emails.
Can I customize WordPress welcome emails?
Yes, Swift SMTP allows you to customize WordPress welcome emails by changing the subject, content, adding attachments, and modifying the "Reply-To" email address and name.
Can I customize the WordPress reset password email?
Yes, Swift SMTP also enables you to customize the subject and content of the default WordPress Forgot Password email.
Changelog
6.2.1 | January 04, 2025
- New: Email logs are now filterable
- Fixed: Broken reset password link
6.2 | September 03, 2024
- New: Email Logging
- Tested up to WordPress 6.6
6.1.2 | May 10, 2024
- Tested up to WordPress 6.5
6.1.1 | January 08, 2024
- New: Setting to force sender name & email
- Tweak: Add additional check to test email to be able to skip authentification
6.1 | January 08, 2024
- Tweak: We are now using Plain Text instead of HTML as the default content type for the welcome emails & smtp settings as this better aligns with WordPress’ core default emails.
6.0.1 | January 03, 2024
- New: [logged_in] & [not_logged_in] tags for Welcome Email Editor
- Tweak: Visual feedback when sending test emails in Welcome Email Editor
- Tweak: Make sure the Welcome Emails mimick WordPress’ default emails
- Tweak: Improved email template when triggering a test email from the SMTP settings tab
- Fixed: Multiple recipients didn’t work in Welcome Email Editor
6.0 | December 30, 2023
- Welcome Email Editor is now Swift SMTP! We’ve revamped Welcome Email Editor to bring you an easy-to-use & free SMTP plugin for WordPress!
5.0.7 | December 12, 2023
- Fixed: Minor security issue
5.0.6 | December 01, 2023
- Tested up to WordPress 6.4
- Fixed: Security issue
5.0.5 | December 07, 2022
- Tested up to WordPress 6.1
5.0.4 | May 11, 2022
- Tweak: Replace [reset_url] with [reset_pass_url] to keep things uniform
- Fixed: Some links were not rendered properly in some cases if Mail Content Type was set to HTML
- Fixed: Wrong textdomains
5.0.3 | April 27, 2022
- Fixed: Wrong link target in the recommended section
5.0.2 | March 02, 2022
- Tested up to 5.9
- Tweak: Updated plugin description
5.0.1 | June 16, 2021
- Fixed: Textdomain issue causing is_readable() warning
5.0 | May 22, 2021
- Hey there, David here ? We have taken over the Welcome Email Editor project from our friend Sean Barton. This is our initial release – Apart from some minor improvements, no new features were added. With this release we have reviewed & rewritten the codebase from ground up and greatly improved the settings page design. Stay tuned for more.
