If security is your highest priority, Tutanota (opens in new tab) is a German secure email service that uses its own encryption standards. Two-factor authentication is supported (Image credit: ProtonMail) The competition Overall, it’s an impressive level of security for emails. You can enable two-factor authentication (opens in new tab) so no one can access your account without also having access to your mobile device. There’s full support for PGP, and the encryption algorithms used are open-source versions of RSA and AES. The code for the web client and encryption algorithms are all open-source (opens in new tab), so any security issues can be patched quickly.

In terms of physical security, ProtonMail’s IT infrastructure (opens in new tab) resides under 1,000 meters of granite rock and your data never goes to the cloud. However, the email subject lines are not stored in an encrypted format, so if compelled to by a Swiss court order, ProtonMail could turn over the subject of your emails to the authorities. ProtonMail uses end-to-end, zero-access encryption for your emails, so they are always encrypted when in transit or when stored on the email servers. After all, why would I pay for a plugin I can’t even get working? A working plugin convinces me to purchase the Pro version.ProtonMail has a comprehensive knowledge base (Image credit: ProtonMail) ProtonMail: Security Would be nice to offer at least basic logs under the Lite version of the plugin. Unfortunately, the Email Logs is Pro only. That’s basically telling me to check literally everything possible. That literally tells me nothing about the error. Just tells me to check my SMTP settings, contact mail provider, or host. When I go to send a test email under the Test Email tab of WP Mail SMTP plugin, I get an error.

SMTP Password: I have that set in the wp-config.php file SMTP Usernamt: My protonmail email address address) Under Other SMTP I have the following settings:Įncryption: SSL (I have also tried TLS instead of SSL) I entered the following information into WP Mail SMTP:įrom Email: My email address, which is my domain for my paid ProtonMail account. I then went to enter the settings for my mail service. So, I downloaded the plugin, installed it, and activated it. Per HostGator, they have strict security and prohibit the use of the WP Mailer on it’s own and suggested I use this plugin to get my WPForms contact form to send. I have my WordPress website hosted on HostGator.

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