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Solution – Hostgator WordPress Emails going to Spam

May 15, 2016 By Satish Chandra Satyarthi 19 Comments

Why-are-My-Emails-Going-to-Spam-One of my WordPress sites is hosted on Hostgator (shared hosting) and the emails are set to fetch to Google via POP3. I also have Woocommerce installed on my site and use Cloudflare free CDN on that domain as well. Everything was going fine until recently I noticed that all the emails from WordPress site, where the primary email for everything is [email protected], were going to the Spam folder in Gmail. The main problem for me was that the Woocommerce order notifications were also going to Spam in my Gmail as well as customer’s Gmail. strangely the emails were going to inbox in other services like Outlook. Also, the emails sent directly from [email protected] were not going to Spam. So, definitely it was not the case of Hostgator server being used for spamming or my domain marked for spamming/phishing.

I talked to Hostgator support and as usual they said all the settings were fine on their side and there was nothing they could do. They told me that something might be wrong on Cloudflare’s part (DKIM settings or something). As I have a free account on Clouflare I don’t have access to any premium support. So, I just raised a support ticket while I kept looking for a solution myself.

And after trying a long list of claimed ‘solutions’ what worked for me was a sweet little  WordPress plugin – Easy WP SMTP. I installed this free plugin on my WordPress site and it solved the Gmail spam problem instantly. Now all my WordPress and Woocommerce emails were going to Inbox. Here are the settings for this plugin –

Easy WP SMTP Settings

From Email Address – [email protected]

From Name – Site Name or Anything else you want

SMTP Host – mail.domainname.com (This is what worked for me, you ca also try smtp.domainname.com)

Type of Encription – None (If you have an Https site you can choose SSL)

SMTP Port – 25 (If you used smtp.domainname.com instead of mail.domainname.com port will be 465)

SMTP Authentication – Yes (Always YES)

SMTP Username – [email protected] (Complete email ID)

SMTP Password – You webmail password

That’s all. Do not forget to send a test mail and check things after setting up the plugin. And please let me know if it worked for you or not.
Easy WP SMTP test Mail

Filed Under: Blogging, Featured Tagged With: Hostgator Email Spam, Woocommerce email spam

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Comments

  1. Anh Nguyen (@anh_ng8) says

    October 28, 2016 at 7:30 AM

    Thanks for sharing this great plugin! it works like a charm for me!!

    Reply
  2. JAN says

    November 6, 2016 at 8:37 PM

    Thank you very much, I spend hours on this issue and finally this did the trick. Again big thank you!

    Reply
  3. mandnose says

    November 11, 2016 at 2:21 AM

    Thank you so much, you saved me! It works for me too!

    Reply
  4. federicogompertz says

    January 17, 2017 at 11:55 PM

    This post was a life saver! Thanks Men!

    Reply
  5. Kat says

    January 26, 2017 at 7:14 PM

    Thanks for sharing this plugin! After many hours of trying to resolve a problem with emails going to the spam folder, this plugin saved so much of my time!

    Reply
  6. Tyler saik says

    February 12, 2017 at 9:28 PM

    You da MAN!!!!!

    I spent days on this crap and on the phone with customer service.

    what a relief!!!!!

    Reply
  7. Sil says

    February 23, 2017 at 7:14 PM

    An easy fix for a huge problem! We can’t thank you enough!

    Reply
  8. vignesh says

    March 28, 2017 at 10:56 AM

    Very useful solution, solved my problem in 5 mins. thanks a lot.

    Reply
  9. Carlos Hoempler says

    April 28, 2017 at 12:30 AM

    Thanks a lot Satish =)

    Reply
  10. Who says

    July 22, 2017 at 1:15 PM

    My account activation emails were going to spam until I did this. This also gets rid of my hostgator username from the mail headers. I used a different SMTP plugin but it works as expected. Thank you very much.

    Reply
  11. Seasick Clothing Co. says

    August 8, 2017 at 10:39 PM

    Thanks Satish! Seriously! This worked wonderfully!

    Reply
  12. Farhan Rana says

    January 4, 2018 at 6:25 AM

    THANK YOU, this simple trick solved my problem in an instant. Spent all day trying to fix this

    Reply
  13. Bloboo says

    February 24, 2018 at 6:59 PM

    This was great! Exactly what I needed to make my emails look more professional. Many thanks.

    Reply
  14. otman soulimani says

    July 18, 2018 at 3:20 AM

    worked fine thank you

    Reply
  15. Laguillo says

    August 8, 2018 at 5:35 PM

    Me funciono perfecto, Muchas gracias! 😉

    Reply
  16. Mayur says

    January 13, 2019 at 10:57 AM

    Many thanks for sharing this Satish. Worked for me as well 🙂

    Reply
  17. Imrul Hasan says

    January 24, 2019 at 2:55 PM

    Bro !!! you just saved my day !!! thanks a lot 😀

    Reply
  18. Martin says

    April 9, 2019 at 10:48 PM

    you are amazing

    Reply
  19. kuartelgeneral says

    August 23, 2019 at 9:13 PM

    Thanks for your post, it solves my problem!

    Reply

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