Acorn Mail is an Acorn provider for WordPress. It allows you to send emails using an SMTP configuration.
- PHP 8.3 or higher
- Acorn 4.0 or higher
composer require inrage/acorn-mail
Start by publishing the configuration file:
wp acorn vendor:publish --tag=acorn-mail
Then, configure the SMTP settings in the .env
file:
MAIL_MAILER=
MAIL_HOST=
MAIL_PORT=
MAIL_USERNAME=
MAIL_PASSWORD=
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=
The native
mailer uses the native PHP mail
function to send emails.
MAIL_MAILER=native
The smtp
mailer uses an SMTP server without authentification to send emails. For example, you can use MailHog to test emails locally.
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
MAIL_PORT=1025
The smtps
mailer uses an SMTP server with authentification to send emails.
MAIL_MAILER=smtps
MAIL_HOST=smtp.example.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=123456ABCDEF
MAIL_PASSWORD=123456ABCDEF
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
Once the configuration is set up, you can send emails using the wp-cli
command:
wp eval 'wp_mail("john_doe@example", "Test e-mail from " . home_url(), "This is a test");'
If you encounter any bugs or issues, feel free to open an issue.
Acorn Mail is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.