Helpful, but annoying

  • tommadrid

    (@tommadrid)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    The plugin certainly does what its built for quite well, but the notices for delivery errors that can’t be dismissed are extremely intrusive and obnoxious. In my case, I’m well aware of the issues that it might have when attempting to deliver messages to certain addresses, I don’t need this plugin alerting me Every. Single. Time. with an irremovable admin notice. Just log the error somewhere. Hell, just make the notice dismiss-able.

    Because of how phoned-in this aspect of the plugin feels, I could reasonably assume the development team also phoned in the rest. In fact, the security advisory filed on this plugin earlier this year resulted in its complete removal from every client I manage. Evidence that other aspects of their work is half-assed? I know the only reason I currently use it now is due to a requirement of the client’s IT team (despite my objections!)

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  • Plugin Author Slava Abakumov

    (@slaffik)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @tommadrid

    WP Mail SMTP v1.6 (that will be released soon), will have a filter, that will allow you to disable these particular global debug notices.

    
add_filter( 'wp_mail_smtp_core_display_general_notices_is_debug_displayed', '__return_false' );

    I hope that will help you.

    Plugin Contributor Jared Atchison

    (@jaredatch)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hey @tommadrid,

    Thanks for the honest feedback. We always appreciate it.

    The logic behind the overly large and “urgent” admin notice is because common pitfalls involve:
    – Mailer not setup correctly
    – Mailer unexpectedly stops working (users change their passwords and don’t think to update it).

    This requires attention since obviously site emails simply don’t send and if you don’t have logging (no one does) they are lost forever. Obviously we can’t email the user there is an issue, so admin notice is all we have to work with – hence not dismissible and showing global until site admin fixes the issue (site wide emails ARE broken after all).

    I’d be interested in learning more about the notice you were seeing, with the mailer and message. Sending an email to a bum email address should not trigger the notice. If that’s happening something is off. So if you could give us more details on that it would be helpful.

    There are no known security issues with the plugin. We are aware of certain compatibility checkers throw errors (detailed here https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/wp-mail-smtp-has-full-php-7-x-support-7-0-7-1-7-2-7-3/) but they are false positives. We’ve requested that to be fixed on their end but they don’t seem to be under active development.

    If you have other security insights let us know .

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