• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

OrganicWeb

Mailchimp Training & Consulting

  • Home
  • Services
    • Mailchimp Training
    • Mailchimp Consulting
  • Free Tools
    • Mailchimp Tutorials on YouTube
    • Subject Line Generator
    • Marketing Ideas Generator
    • Map Maker for Email
    • WhatsApp Click to Chat Generator
    • Avoid Email Going to Spam
    • Email Link Generator
    • Is Mailchimp Down?
    • Marketing Facts and Stats
  • Content
    • Blog
    • Videos
  • Contact & About
    • Contact
    • About

Fix WordPress emails going to spam?

Do your system generated WordPress emails, such as when someone leaves a comment on a post, go straight to your spam/junk email folder? What about when someone contacts you via your contact form, do the notifications go to spam?

This is a common issue with self-hosted WordPress websites. Particularly if you use shared hosting you’ll encounter this issue. The reason is that, if emails from other senders using the same server as you on your shared hosting have been marked as a spam in the past, that will affect your email messages sent from that server too.

How to Stop WordPress Emails Going to Spam

Fortunately it is very easy to change the way that your WordPress emails are sent so that they stop going directly into your spam folder. Follow these instructions.

  1. Signup for a Mailgun account (they have a free plan).
  2. Setup your Mailgun account.
  3. Install and setup the Mailgun for WordPress plugin.

Your WordPress sent emails will now be sent through Mailgun which is a reliable transactional email provider.

Note: If you use Mandrill by Mailchimp for transactional email then that will work well too (Mandrill no longer have a free plan).

Found this useful? Please share:

Related

  • Moving from Mandrill to Amazon SES in WordPress
  • Mailgun, a free Mandrill alternative for WordPress
  • Learn how to use Mailchimp transactional email in WordPress & WooCommerce

Filed Under: WordPress

Watch Gary in action

Gary frequently adds Mailchimp instructional videos to his YouTube channel. Subscribe to keep updated.

→  Subscribe   ←

How to add an editable attachment to a Mailchimp campaign.

How to add, and send, coupon codes in Mailchimp.

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You are here: Home / WordPress / Fix WordPress emails going to spam?

Primary Sidebar

Mailchimp write about my work

Read on Mailchimp.com

Learn from a Mailchimp Pro Partner

Signup to receive info about Gary's Mailchimp beginner and advanced classes.

Sign up

Gary on Australian National Radio

Changes are coming to the Australian Spam Act

Read Gary's article in SmartCompany

Meet Gary, Mailchimp Expert

Gary is a Mailchimp Expert and Partner. He delivers Mailchimp training and consulting services in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Gary presents at Mailchimp events and hosts the first, and only, Australian Mailchimp sponsored event. He is M.B.A. qualified from Henley Business School, U.K.

Contact Gary for your Mailchimp needs

Footer

Customer Rating

Mailchimp Pro Partners

Contact

Contact Gary for all your Mailchimp training, consulting and integration needs.

Contact Gary.

Copyright © 2022 · Sitemap · ABN: 40800872179 · Privacy Policy · Terms of Service