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

Additional features include filtering functionality within the email log, the introduction of an email suppression list, and a new Experimental Features area on the Settings page.

Gravity SMTP is available for free to anyone with an active Gravity Forms Elite, Nonprofit, or Developer license. If you hold one of these licenses, simply head on over 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 jump in…

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 both personal and business use. Offering a full suite of apps – including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes and Bookmarks – Zoho Mail allows you to easily manage and engage with 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 the traditional WordPress the wp_mail() function, which is based on the 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, it’s imperative to know when WordPress emails stop sending, especially for sites that send a high volume of emails daily. Email downtime can upset customers, result in lost business, and have significant consequences for revenue.

With Gravity SMTP 1.6, you’ll find a new Alerts UI, where you can set up Slack and Twilio integrations. Once configured, you’ll receive instant notifications if email sending failure occurs, allowing you to quickly address and resolve any issues.

Within the Alerts Setting panel, there is the option to add multiple Slack webhook URLs and Twilio accounts, so your notifications can reach numerous channels, users, and SMS numbers if required. This provides a great way to keep your team in the know and stay on top of any email failures that occur on your WordPress sites or client sites.

It’s important to note, Alerts has been 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.

Email Log Filtering

Alongside support for Zoho Mail and email alerts, Gravity SMTP 1.6 also incorporates a number of smaller features, a notable one being the addition of filtering within the email log for efficient monitoring and troubleshooting.

With the enhanced log table, you’ll be able to easily filter and find logs based on certain criteria, including date, event type, and source. Easily navigate and analyze specific email logs sent on certain dates, from particular plugins, or via particular services to gain insights into your email sending performance.

Email Suppression List

With the new Suppression Management System that’s been added in 1.6, site admins will now be able to view and add to a suppression list, helping to manage email delivery by blocking specific addresses from receiving messages.

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

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

For more information on using the Suppression list, check out the documentation.

Experimental Features Area

Within the Gravity SMTP Settings, with 1.6, you’ll find a new Experimental Features area. Moving forward, Gravity SMTP will occasionally introduce experimental features. These will be early versions of new functionality that are 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 input and ongoing improvements. By making these features available, we aim to refine them collaboratively with you, ensuring they meet practical needs and align with expectations.

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

For more information on experimental features, check out 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 hold one of these licenses, simply head on over 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 extensive range of features.

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

Gravity SMTP 1.6 Changelog

• Added Zoho Mail integration.
• Added suppression management system with manual email suppression capabilities.
• Added date filters and simple filters to the activity log.
• Added experiments setting area to the plugin’s general settings.
• Added experimental alerts for when the plugin is unable to send emails (using Slack and Twilio).
• Fixed a bug that causes the Email Log to not render when a service is missing for an entry.
• Fixed a bug that causes pagination endpoints for the Email and Debug logs to not work 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!