Title: Email Notification Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Email Notification Plugin

 *  indiano
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-notification-plugin/)
 * In all Email Notification Plugins that I have seen, I can not find WHERE do I
   have to enter my SMTP server. Do I need something else?.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-notification-plugin/#post-67633)
 * If you mean emails from the blog to you, then nope.. wordpress has all that already
   sorted 🙂
 *  [dlature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlature/)
 * (@dlature)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-notification-plugin/#post-68334)
 * HOw is that , since I never told it? (At least I don’t rememebr….are the mail
   settings it is operating with displayed anywhere (like in the admin area?)
 *  [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * (@coffee2code)
 * WordPress & Plugin Developer
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-notification-plugin/#post-68357)
 * WordPress relies on a program called sendmail to handle outgoing mail and assumes
   it is available locally on your webserver and that it’s already configured.
    
   If you are worrying before-the-fact that you didn’t see configuration options
   for an SMTP server and haven’t had cause for WP to e-mail you yet, then try and
   comment on one of your posts to see if it works for you. If not, or if you already
   know you don’t have access to sendmail, or if you’d rather just have e-mail go
   through an SMTP server and not deal with sendmail at all, you might try the plugin
   I made, [wpPHPMailer](http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/28/plugin-wpphpmailer/).
   Requires a few very small core modifications though (changing four instances 
   of “@mail” to “@phpmailer”).

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-notification-plugin/#post-68357)
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