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How to Fix WordPress Email Spoofing Issues (Step-by-Step)

WordPress email spoofing happens when emails appear to come from your domain but lack proper authentication, causing delivery failures and security risks.

Your contact forms might be setting visitors’ email addresses as the sender, your server could be sending unauthenticated mail, or your domain simply lacks the DNS records that prove legitimate ownership.

This creates two main problems: your legitimate emails get blocked or marked as spam, and malicious actors can more easily impersonate your domain to send fraudulent messages.

In this guide, we’ll fix these spoofing issues by setting up WP Mail SMTP with proper authentication, configuring your DNS records with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and ensuring your contact forms handle sender addresses correctly.

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How to Fix Email Delays in WordPress

Are your WordPress emails showing up 20 minutes late? Or worse, arriving hours after someone submitted a form or completed checkout?

The problem starts with how WordPress sends emails. By default, it uses PHP’s mail() function, which is slow and unreliable.

Most hosts also throttle how many emails you can send per hour. Hit that limit and your emails queue up, causing delays that stack throughout the day.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through what’s actually causing the delays on your site and how to fix them so your emails send instantly.

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WordPress Email Audit

WordPress Email Audit: Is Your Site Sending Emails You Don’t Know About?

Your WordPress site is probably sending more emails than you realize. Password reset notifications, contact form confirmations, backup reports, and plugin updates all go out automatically.

Most WordPress site owners have no idea what emails their site actually sends or how often but I’ll show you how to audit every email your WordPress site sends in just 15 minutes using WP Mail SMTP’s Email Log feature.

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How To Reduce Email Bounces With Email Validation

How To Prevent Email Bounces With WordPress Email Validation

High email bounce rates are costing you money and hurting your sender reputation. While most people focus on cleaning up bounces after they happen, the smarter approach is preventing invalid emails from entering your WordPress database in the first place.

Learn how to implement email validation on contact forms, registration pages, and checkout forms to stop bad emails at the source.

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How To Manage Email in WordPress Multisite

How To Manage Email in WordPress Multisite (Without the Headaches)

Managing email across a WordPress multisite network can be complex and frustrating.

Learn how to properly configure WP Mail SMTP for multisite, improve deliverability across all your sites, troubleshoot problems faster with comprehensive email logging, and decide between global or per-site settings.

This complete guide shows you how to take control of multisite email management without the typical headaches.

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