About email setup for website

@dassa I started using Zoho and was less than impressed with their service. I was sending mail from my local test environment when they blocked the account for improper use. I set up my own mail server using Mail-In-A-Box and haven't had issues since.

The purpose of needing a SMTP server is so that your site can send registration email and perhaps a newsletter if you set that up. You can do email marketing with your WordPress site as well but @Hasan might have a different view on that.

@ssadvisor any tutorial to get proper idea about this whole consept. Thanks

@dassa you could schedule time with me and we could discuss it.

@ssadvisor yes I like. So how to do that. I don t know it is against the forum or not?

@dassa see the link in my signature to schedule the time.

The video shows how to setup a business email with Zoho. it is a professional email under your own domain. That's it.

you dont need to connect Zoho or sendgrid, if you want to implement a contact form on your page, you just need to set the reply and from address as your email. 

@admin but your system still needs to be able to SMTP to your email address to send you the form. If you want an email-less contact form you would need to store the contact form data in the database and use an admin or client support tool to access the data. But then you need to be able to SMTP send the responses to the user.

Zoho's support for their free version is nearly nonexistent and the paid versions are more than a startup can afford. I liked it when I was using it until they suspended the account and then support was crickets. That's when I started using MIAB for my SMTP service on my own servers.

@ssadvisor Yeah, I am just explaining what the video is about on my channel. 

if he wants to send an email from WordPress, sure he needs an SMTP, usually hosting companies provide this with some restrictions to prevent spamming

Thank you and I have a question. I`m getting new user registrations every day which look like spam or something. but In my website interface still I did not include the option to register. so how do they register?

@dassa You dont have a sign up page at all? and you're getting new members?

@dassa did you install any membership plugins?

@dassa what's your URL? Are you perhaps sharing your database with a different website?

finally found the thing. They can register when they submit comments to the post. 

@dassa is that what you want to do? If not change the settings to disallow commenting.

@dassa you can change this behavior if you want.

@ssadvisor if I do that is it ok for blog post. Because I get most of spam comment from unknown language 😆

@dassa yes it is okay. I have mine set to "Comment author must have previously approved comment" in the "Discussion" settings menu.

@dassa I'm also using this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration-email-validator/ with the caution that it hasn't been validated to work with the WordPress version I'm using but I've not seen any problems.

let me try with your way. thank you. will give you feedbak