You can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailgun/ and it will work perfectly. I am also using it on my sites.
Thank you Vapvarun for the reassurance on MailGun.
I had a few quick follow-up questions, I was hoping you could help me with:
1. Do you recommend I go into “maintenance mode” before switching the email service to Mailgun or do you have any other workflow suggestions for making the email service change on a very active site?
2. When a member gets a site generated notification is the sender email always the site email, even if it’s to notify them of a message from another member, in other words, is one MailGun account (subject to the email limit I purchase) going to do the trick for a large buddypress membership site?
3. When a member messages a member inside the site, is this through their email?
And if you have any documentation on this that would be great too. I’m having trouble trying to understand how email/notifications/messaging in a buddypress site functions, and then in turn how to solve our problem of exceeding our hosts* 500 per day email limit.
Thank you again!
*Interestingly GetFlyWheel use SendGrid but when I contacted SendGrid they referred me to MailGun
@mrditt
You can switch in real time.
Mailgun will send email sent to WordPress or any other plugins including BuddyPress.
Mailgun has a free slot and paid stot, based on usages you can increase your plan.
When someone sends a message to Adam (just random username), Adam will get an email notification as well.
You can find the doc here https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/
It will help you disable all bp emails, alter them and disable some emails based on their actions.
@mrditt
I’m curious if you converted to Mailgun? If so, do you have HTML emails being sent, or just plain text?
I have a BP site that relies heavily on emails and we’re just realizing that although we’ve been using Mailgun for several months that the emails are plain text and not HTML. I’m now trying to figure out where the disconnect is from Mailgun or WP/BP emails that HTML emails are not being sent (as desired).
We haven’t taken the plunge yet. But I’m aware of this issue too. Please let me know what you figure out, because this is something I’m anticipating
@mrditt
SendGrid is the way to go. Their official WP plugin has a wrapper that plays nice with BP’s wp_mail API. It is the only service at the moment.
I called them first, they said they weren’t set up to handle a buddypress social networking site that relies on email notifications. Did they tell you something different?
@mrditt Mailgun, plugin need some customization to send bp emails as HTML. We have tested sendgrid plugin and it’s sending them as HTML, they have added support for BP emails via adding a custom wrapper for it.
Could you explain the customization needed with mailgun plugin to send bp emails as HTML?
