Title: Using gmail SMTP plugin
Last modified: February 28, 2017

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# Using gmail SMTP plugin

 *  Resolved [wordfrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordfrog/)
 * (@wordfrog)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-gmail-smtp-plugin/)
 * Our hosting server, dreamhost.com, is banned by all email providers. So, any 
   emails that are sent out by the hosting server are blocked. We have installed
   Gmail SMTP plugin to allow for emails to be sent from a valid Gmail account. 
   Does WP Auctions have any support to send emails by way of the Gmail STMP plugin.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-gmail-smtp-plugin/#post-8859281)
 * DreamHost isn’t banned by ‘all’ email providers (or even most …) Your IP might
   have gotten caught in a blacklist though. Have you opened a support ticket to
   get that cleared?
 * Since Gmail SMTP uses wp_mail, that SHOULD work just fine with everything out
   there.
 * The problem here is WP Auction Plugin is using PHP’s mail() function instead.
   They need to switch that over.
 *  Plugin Author [owencutajar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/owencutajar/)
 * (@owencutajar)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-gmail-smtp-plugin/#post-8860450)
 * Hi Wordfrog/Mika,
 * We’ve just updated the plugin to use wp_mail as per Mika’s suggestion. Apologies
   for the oversight, we switched the premium version to using wp_mail many moons
   ago when we added UTF8 functionality, but never retrofitted it to the free version.
 * Thanks to both for highlighting the issue and helping us improve WP Auctions
 * Regards
 * Owen

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