Title: Supported SMTP plugins?
Last modified: October 21, 2021

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# Supported SMTP plugins?

 *  Resolved [LennartBon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lennartbon/)
 * (@lennartbon)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supported-smtp-plugins/)
 * Our web host recently made some changes to their platform and informed us that
   if we wanted to keep sending emails, whether from Contact Form 7 or password 
   reset emails, we would have to install a separate SMTP plugin.
 * We have tried with two so far, “Send email with Mandrill” and “Post SMTP Mailer”,
   and while they both work in the sense that users can fill in forms and emails
   are sent, apparently they also bypass the Recaptcha module in CF7 which means
   we get a lot of contact spam again. (They also bypass the Flamingo logging, but
   that’s less critical for us.)
 * No idea if this is a bug or intended behaviour, but any help would be much appreciated.
 * Wordpress 5.8.1, PHP 7.4.21, nginx 1.20.1
    Avada 7.4.2, CF7 5.5.1 with the google.
   com -> recaptcha.net patches applied manually to recaptcha.php
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsupported-smtp-plugins%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supported-smtp-plugins/#post-14991904)
 * Where on the site do you have the form having the issue?
 *  Thread Starter [LennartBon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lennartbon/)
 * (@lennartbon)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supported-smtp-plugins/#post-14992322)
 * We have two CF7 pages/forms that I can think of
 * – https://percepio.com/contact
    – https://percepio.com/request-a-quote/
 * The spammers probably haven’t discovered the 2nd one yet, but the contact page
   receives ~10 spam submissions per day.
 * /Lennart
 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supported-smtp-plugins/#post-14994687)
 * Do you realize the form on [https://percepio.com/contact](https://percepio.com/contact)
   is not Contact Form 7’s?
 *  Thread Starter [LennartBon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lennartbon/)
 * (@lennartbon)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supported-smtp-plugins/#post-14995285)
 * Oops, my bad; I had in fact not noticed that. But the other page, request-a-quote,
   definitely contains a Contact Form 7 form.

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 * [reCAPTCHA](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/recaptcha/)

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [LennartBon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lennartbon/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supported-smtp-plugins/#post-14995285)
 * Status: resolved