Most small business owners spend hours on emails that could send themselves. This guide walks you through every level of email automation — from making sure your transactional emails actually get delivered, to setting up welcome sequences and triggered campaigns, all the way to using AI tools that can write and send emails on your behalf.
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.
SMTP fixes most WordPress email problems, but not all of them.
Some email failures come from basic WordPress settings that work against your SMTP configuration – admin emails pointing to dead addresses, site URLs from old staging environments, user permissions blocking notifications.
This guide shows you what to check beyond your SMTP setup.
Card testing fraud attacks generate thousands of emails in hours, creating sudden volume spikes that damage your sender reputation. Discover the hidden connection between payment form security and email deliverability, and learn practical steps to protect your WordPress site from both fraud and email delivery issues.
Use your favorite SMTP provider to reliably send your WordPress emails.
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.
Phishing emails used to be easy to spot. Broken English, desperate all-caps warnings, and misspelled brand names gave scammers away. AI has eliminated these tells, creating emails that sound like they come from someone who actually knows you.
Attackers can easily spoof unprotected domains to send these fraudulent emails to your customers. Learn how email authentication protocols like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC prevent domain spoofing and protect your reputation.