Happy to help Rob! I'm glad you found me :)

Glad it helped!

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I appreciate that!

A quick answer to your question is yes... this is an acceptable thing to do. By default, WordPress also stores your database credentials in plain text in wp-config.php (see wordpress.org/support/article/editing-wp-config-php/). The reason for this is because WordPress needs to be given this information to interact with your database. Same thing for email like in this video. You can obfuscate the password by encrypting it, but at some point, the password will need to be decrypted and reside in memory in plain text. At this point, if a hacker is on your server and looking at your wp-config file, you have bigger problems than your password being readable by a human. The wp-config.php files is not accessible to your website visitors. The only people who should have access to this file are the website administrators. From a security perspective, your job is to protect access to your server. To do this, strong passwords to WordPress, your database, and your sever are a good start.

@@TonyTeachesTech Thank you Tony! 🙏🏻

How to use mailtrap in our wordpress cms for email by contact form 7

Great!!

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No problem

No doubt!

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Do you mean for an email address like you@outlook.com?

@@TonyTeachesTech Hi, yes. That is correct. Thanks and happy new year. :)

SMTP_USER is your gmail address in this case. You'll want this to match SMTP_FROM (although they don't have to match, but spam filters might catch your email if they don't match). This approach should work with a WordPress docker image. Does that help? LMK if you have additional questions.

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You're very welcome!

Hmm, are you using Gmail with an app password?

I prefer to do this manually over a plugin

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I'm not sure how to handle multiple connections, but I would think it's possible

Sorry I don't know how I can help you

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Yep

Probably, but this would require a bit of work. I don't actually see the benefit of logging in this case. All email communications will be stored on your email server, so I just see the logging feature as redundant. Am I missing something here with logging?

Tony Teaches Tech yeh thought it could be complicated but thought i’d ask on the off chance it wasn’t. the purpose of logging would be to know if/when something fails. for example if for some reason the smtp server couldn’t be reached then at least you’d know.

@@EpithetMusicTV oh yes, good call. This information will always be available in the server logs in case you need to access it.

I'm not sure I completely understand what you're trying to do. Do you want multiple SMTP settings?

Sorry I don’t know

No extra code is necessary

Yes it should

You'll need to provide the same type of information

I would recommend to use an "app password" like this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMiEZZuJld3Ngqs.html (just the part where we create the Google App Password for you email)

Can you rephrase your question?

@@TonyTeachesTech I have set up a custom page that handles the custom registration form on the WordPress page. So I want to know how like in php as we write mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) so with the function setup in the video what should I write instead of mail

One more question I have which I am struggling with and it's very important for me. If I am setting up my custom login in WordPress environment then how can I set the custom session variables and use it anywhere I want for example like: session_start(); $_SESSION["email"] = $email

Yes

Are you using a plugin to do this?

You will need your gmail credentials for this to work

Are you using Contact Form 7? There is a check box that you can see here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/os-WY9eIl7u7pqs.html that says "Use HTML content type". I don't check it in the video, but if you check it you can send HTML emails. I'm not sure why the password reset doesn't work. Are you talking about your WordPress admin password?

Thanks, Tony for the fast reply I explained everything with screenshots here: codepen.io/mahmoud97/full/BazoMQa I really hope you can help me if possible Best regards

@@mahmoudmostafa5259 it doesn't look like the linked screenshots are working for me. I saw your writeup about not using Contact Form 7. According to the WordPress docs for wp_mail (developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_mail/), "The default content type is text/plain which does not allow using HTML. However, you can set the content type of the email by using the ‘wp_mail_content_type’ filter." Here's the WP docs for wp_mail_content_type developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_mail_content_type/. Looks like you'll need to add something like this to your functions.php file: function wpdocs_set_html_mail_content_type() { return 'text/html'; } add_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'wpdocs_set_html_mail_content_type' );

@@TonyTeachesTech yes, this worked for me, thanks a lot Tony

@@mahmoudmostafa5259 I'm happy to hear that!

Go to example.com/wp-admin (where example.com is your actual domain name)

@@TonyTeachesTech That link is not opening

@@indhu.v7938 Do you own the website? Are you sure it's WordPress?

You can get that from you email provider

He has good ideas but the video does not work on my 2site