Guys, we need a replacement…

  • catmaniax

    (@catmaniax)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hello everyone,

    It’s been 2 years now since the last update and it’s pretty obvious by now that the plugin WON’T be updated and maintained in the future.

    It’s a shame really, because it’s an awesome and well built plugin.

    So, I’d like to ask you if and which replacement you found and recommend, that is frequently updated, has active support and also support SENDGRID SMTP.

    If it has an option to keep logs of sent emails, that would be a nice feature too.

    Please let me know.
    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by catmaniax.
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  • fssbob

    (@fssbob)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    I totally agree. PostMan was a class act, but it’s too risky to continue to depend on it given the apparent abandonment.

    I’m switching to Mail Bank (aka “WP Mail – WP SMTP – WordPress SMTP Plugin by Mail Bank”–totally confusing). Has pretty much the same functionality as PostMan (including OAUTH2). Doesn’t have an elegant configuration wizard like PostMan, and the documentation could be better, but so far it seems rock solid and very well-supported. The paid version ($20 for one site, $60 for five sites) includes logging. I don’t know how well it supports SendGrid–I’m using it with Google’s SMTP servers.

    Thread Starter catmaniax

    (@catmaniax)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the recommendation, I have currently switched to SendGrid’s official plugin for now.

    steveb123

    (@steveb123)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    We don’t need a replacement, we need someone to take over and maintain the best plugin for mail ever, Postman.

    Thread Starter catmaniax

    (@catmaniax)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    If and until then, what though?

    Jon Brown

    (@jb510)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Frequent updates aren’t the sign of good code… The best code can go years without needing an update.

    This plugin is still by far the most robust and what I use on 50+ sites. It does sound like @jasonhendriks is no longer going to maintain it. That’s too bad, but the beauty of GPL is that anyone, even you, can fork it and maintain it if you wish. I’ve done that myself, but I am not about to try to distribute and support it on .org. Supporting an email plugin free or paid sounds like absolute misery to me, probably worse than supporting backup plugins.

    @catmaniax If you want a supported alternative see https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ which was recently purchased by WP Forms and the team being Monster Insights / Soliloquy / etc…

    If you want a fix for this: https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/06/29/reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-postman-smtp/

    Simply change:
    value=”<?php echo $_REQUEST[‘page’] ?>” />
    on line 346 of the file /Postman/Postman-Email-Log/PostmanEmailLogController.php
    to:
    value=”<?php echo esc_attr($_REQUEST[‘page’]) ?>” />

    Hopefully, someone (currently only @jasonhendriks) with commit access to this repo will update that soon.

    Maybe Jason wants to add more contributors if so, let me know 😀

    fssbob

    (@fssbob)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ doesn’t support OAUTH2, which is one of Postman SMTP’s major strengths. A better alternative–in my opinion–that DOES support OAUTH2 is Mail Bank.

    Even Mail Bank, however, fails to duplicate another important feature of Postman SMTP–the ability to use the GMail API on hosts–e.g. Bluehost–that won’t allow use of the ports necessary to support SMTP. The plugin GMail SMTP CLAIMS to support the GMail API–but it actually doesn’t. (The author is mistakenly calling its support of OAUTH2 support of the GMail API.)

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    yehudah

    (@yehudah)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hello every one.

    I invite all the plugin users to my fork (copy)
    I have fixed the security issue and gmail API bug.
    https://github.com/yehudah/Postman-SMTP

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