Use a less intrusive SMTP solution for new sites

[edjeavons]

Easy WP SMTP has become visually bloated (heavy branding, nag screen & setup wizard on first run, plugin upselling) so I'm swapping it for something that better matches our approach to a website's CMS.

We need something that quietly sits in the background and isn't too obvious to most CMS users because it's confusing configuration for the majority.

My preferences:

• Does not add a new top-level item to either top or left navigation bars. It is a bugbear of mine that any mail software thinks we need persistent quick access to it.
• SMTP is fine for us, we don't want/need integrations via a long list of email relay providers
• Minimal configuration that's easily preconfigured in our create-site script
• Little/no branding
• No upselling
• Test email feature
• Bonus: Configurable via .env parameters
• Bonus: Kill switch to stop all outgoing email
• Bonus: Optional logging (with auto cleanup) for times when needed

With all those requirements in mind, WordPress Simple SMTP looks ideal. Unfortunately it's recently entered a bugfix-only state but if we have any issues/requirements we can start working from our own fork.

[edjeavons]

Reopening because this needs a little extra work to add config to development.php during installation.

Suggest:

SMTP_HOST=127.0.0.1
SMTP_PORT=1025
SMTP_AUTH=0
SMTP_SEC='off'

This seems preferable vs. relying on Satellite to disable mail sending entirely. All of our team tends to use Mailhog/Mailpit on port 1025 to catch emails locally.

[edjeavons]

Resolved