To keep spammers off our servers, LaunchCDN sites can’t send email directly from WordPress. For most PBN sites that’s not a problem: you can always log in from your dashboard, and nothing on the site needs to email you.
If you do want email from WordPress or a plugin (new comments, contact form entries, security alerts), send it through a transactional email service’s API instead.
Set Up SMTP2GO
SMTP2GO is a popular email delivery service with a free plan for low-volume senders, which covers most PBN sites. Its free WordPress plugin sends mail over SMTP2GO’s HTTP API, so it works without any mail server on the site.
- Create a free account at SMTP2GO and verify your sender domain or address.
- In SMTP2GO, create an API key with permission to send email.
- In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New, search for “SMTP2GO” and install the official plugin.
- Open the plugin’s settings, paste your API key, set the From name and address, and send a test email.
Other Providers
Most transactional email services, including Brevo, Mailgun and Postmark, offer a similar WordPress plugin. Whichever you pick, choose the option that sends over the provider’s API.
Keep Your Network Separate
Sending every site through one email account links them together in that provider’s records. If that matters for your network, use a separate account per site or per group of sites, just as you would with analytics.
