We are happy to announce the release of Gravity SMTP 1.6. With this update, you’ll discover new integration with Zoho Mail, as well as an alerts feature giving you the ability to receive alerts via Slack or Twilio when an email fails.

Additional features include a filtering feature in the email log, the introduction of an email suppression list, and a new experimental features area on the Settings page.

Gravity SMTP is available free to anyone with an active Gravity Forms Elite, Nonprofit, or Developer license. If you own one of these licenses, simply head to your Gravity Forms account section to download Gravity SMTP today!

Gravity SMTP 1.6 is packed with new features, so without further ado, let’s get to it…

Send emails from WordPress with Zoho Mail

With Gravity SMTP 1.6, you can now connect and send your WordPress emails with Zoho Mail.

Zoho Mail is a popular and secure email hosting solution ideal for personal and business use. Offering a full suite of apps – including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes and Favorites – Zoho Mail lets you easily manage and interact with your contacts, create and track calendar events, automate tasks and much more.

And with Gravity SMTP, you can now configure your site to use the Zoho Mail API to send WordPress emails – a faster and much more reliable option than using traditional WordPress’ wp_mail() function, which is based on PHP mail function.

For more information on how to get started with Zoho Mail, check out the documentation.

Email alerts via Slack and Twilio

For many, knowing when WordPress emails stop sending is imperative, especially for sites that send a high volume of emails daily. Email downtime can annoy customers, lead to lost business, and have a significant impact on revenue.

With Gravity SMTP 1.6 you will find a new alerts UI, where you can configure Slack and Twilio integrations. Once configured, you will receive instant notifications if email delivery fails, allowing you to quickly address and resolve any issues.

In the Alerts Settings panel, you have the option to add multiple Slack webhook URLs and Twilio accounts, so your notifications can reach many channels, users, and SMS numbers if necessary. This is a great way to keep your team informed and stay on top of any email failures that occur on your WordPress sites or client sites.

It’s important to note that alerts were shipped as an experimental feature (more on this below). You can enable this feature in Settings → Experimental Features.

For more information on how to get started with the new Alerts feature, check out the documentation.

Filtering Email Logs

In addition to support for Zoho Mail and email alerts, Gravity SMTP 1.6 also includes a number of smaller features, including the addition of email log filtering for monitoring and troubleshooting. effective.

With the enhanced log table, you will be able to easily filter and search logs based on certain criteria, including date, event type, and source. Easily browse and analyze logs of specific emails sent on certain dates, from particular plugins or through particular services to gain insights into your email sending performance.

Email deletion list

With the new suppression management system added in version 1.6, site administrators will now be able to view and add items to a suppression list, helping to manage email delivery by preventing specific addresses from receiving messages .

Currently, this feature only supports manual email deletion capabilities, allowing you to manually add emails to the list, track why and when they were deleted, and reactivate them if necessary.

Suppression list entries can also be searched using the search bar located in the upper right corner of the suppression list page. The search will compare any entered text to the email data of the sender, recipient, subject and body text.

For more information about using the Delete list, see the documentation.

Experimental Features Area

In the Gravity SMTP settings, with version 1.6 you will find a new area of ​​experimental features. In the future, Gravity SMTP will occasionally introduce experimental features. These will be the first versions of new features made available to users.

Experimental features will be marked as such to indicate that they are still in development and may change significantly based on your feedback and ongoing improvements. By making these features available, we aim to refine them in collaboration with you, ensuring that they meet practical needs and meet expectations.

Currently, the new Alerts feature is available as an experimental feature and will need to be enabled in the Experimental Features area.

For more information about experimental features, see the documentation.

Get Gravity SMTP today!

As mentioned, Gravity SMTP is available for free with a Gravity Forms Elite, Nonprofit, or Developer license. If you own one of these licenses, simply head to your Gravity Forms account section to download Gravity SMTP today.

You can explore our ultimate guide to Gravity SMTP for step-by-step plugin setup instructions and detailed coverage of its wide range of features.

And if you’d like to have your say on future Gravity SMTP features and integrations, head over to our Gravity SMTP roadmap and tell us what’s important to you.

Gravity SMTP 1.6 Changelog

• Added Zoho Mail integration.
• Added deletion management system with manual email deletion capabilities.
• Added date filters and simple filters to the activity log.
• Added an experiments configuration area to the general plugin settings.
• Added experimental alerts when the plugin fails to send emails (using Slack and Twilio).
• Fixed a bug that prevented the email log from being rendered when a service is missing for an entry.
• Fixed a bug that prevented email and debug log paging endpoints when wp-includes is in a non-standard location.

As always, if you have any questions about Gravity SMTP or how to get started with this new plugin, our expert support team is available to help!