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Emails Not Arriving

WordPress doesn’t send email the way people assume. By default it hands messages to the server’s built-in mail function, which most hosts either restrict, rate-limit, or route in a way that gets immediately flagged as spam — so a site can report a message as sent while it never reaches an inbox.

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EML-010

Bounce & complaint handling setup

Bounce and complaint handling set up properly, so a stale address doesn't cost you sending reputation.

Standard Dashboard / config
Needs: Email access, Third-party credentials
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-001

Contact form not sending – diagnosis & fix

Contact form entries arrive but the email notification behind them doesn't — we trace where the handoff actually breaks.

Quick Diagnose & fix
Needs: WP admin login, Email access
$41.53
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-004

DMARC record setup & alignment

A DMARC policy added on top of already-working SPF and DKIM, without risking mail that currently gets through.

Standard Dashboard / config
Needs: DNS access, Email access
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-015

Email deliverability audit report

A full check of your domain's email authentication, reputation, and content, with a ranked report of what's actually worth fixing.

Standard Report deliverable
Needs: WP admin login, Email access, DNS access
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-011

Email log installation & monitoring

A real record of every email WordPress sends, so "did that actually go out" stops being a guess.

Quick Dashboard / config
Needs: WP admin login
$41.53
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-013

Mail queue backlog clearance

A backed-up mail queue cleared, and the cause of the slowdown fixed so it doesn't just refill.

Quick Diagnose & fix
Needs: WP admin login, Hosting panel
$41.53
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-016

Multi-domain sending configuration

Every domain your site sends as, properly authenticated on its own DNS.

Standard Dashboard / config
Needs: Email access, DNS access
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-009

Newsletter plugin delivery failure

A newsletter or campaign failing to deliver or bouncing heavily, diagnosed against its own delivery report.

Standard Diagnose & fix
Needs: WP admin login, Email access, Third-party credentials
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-002

SMTP setup with SPF & DKIM records

Proper SPF and DKIM authentication set up for your domain, not just a plugin toggle.

Standard Dashboard / config
Needs: WP admin login, Email access, DNS access
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-005

Transactional email service integration

A dedicated transactional email service connected in place of WordPress's own unreliable default sending.

Standard Dashboard / config
Needs: WP admin login, Email access
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours
EML-003

WooCommerce order email deliverability fix

Order confirmations and admin notifications missing while the orders themselves are fine — we find where the email drops.

Standard Diagnose & fix
Needs: WP admin login, Email access, DNS access
$109.32
Delivered in 48 hours

About these fixes

WordPress doesn’t send email the way people assume. By default it hands messages to the server’s built-in mail function, which most hosts either restrict, rate-limit, or route in a way that gets immediately flagged as spam — so a site can report a message as sent while it never reaches an inbox. From there the same underlying issue shows up in different clothes: a contact form that appears to submit successfully, a password reset a customer never receives, a WooCommerce order confirmation landing in spam instead of an inbox, a newsletter with a delivery rate quietly dropping over months.

What these fixes have in common is that they work at the authentication layer rather than the plugin settings screen — configuring proper SMTP sending, and getting SPF, DKIM and DMARC records correctly aligned with the sending domain, because inbox providers use those records to decide whether a message is legitimate before a subject line is ever read. A form that says “message sent” proves nothing on its own; the fix is confirmed by tracing an actual message through delivery, not by re-testing the form that submitted it.