Hi @trupti2019,
Thanks for reaching out, and I’m so sorry about the spam you keep receiving.
Please know that this isn’t caused by WP Mail SMTP. I’ll explain below:
When WP Mail SMTP is set up, it improves email delivery. When our plugin fixes the delivery problem, it fixes it for all emails. This means legit emails and spam will be able to make it through, as our plugin doesn’t determine what email is legit and what isn’t. It passes all of it over to the mailer service.
What you’ll want to do is stop spam at the source, which is the forms on your site. Stopping spam before it can be submitted will stop WordPress and WP Mail SMTP from processing it. This not only stops spam from landing in your email, it also helps prevent your hosting account from running unnecessary processes, which can affect your resource usage.
Please look into other anti-spam protection techniques with Contact Form 7. This is where you can stop the spamming of your form.
Alternatively, you can check out WPForms, which has several built-in methods of mitigating spam:
https://wpforms.com/docs/how-to-prevent-spam-in-wpforms/
I hope this helps! Thanks! 🙂
This is not 1st time SMTP plugin implemented the website. It has been integrated from long but from past few days I’m receiving this spam mails from a particular form. So I reintegrated the plugin but still no change. I’m using Contact form 7 plugin which have inbuild reCAPTCHA (google reCAPTCHA) and security tool (akismet).
Hi @trupti2019,
Thanks for your reply.
Please know that the issue is originating from Contact Form 7 and not WP Mail SMTP.
WP Mail SMTP only helps for email delivery. It does not control the source of the email content. On that note, we are unable to troubleshoot this.
I suggest you reach out to the Contact Form 7 support team for other options on how to control the spam.
I hope this helps. Thanks 🙂
