From the course: AWS for Developers: Simple Email Service (SES)
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How WordPress sends email - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for Developers: Simple Email Service (SES)
How WordPress sends email
- [Instructor] WordPress is written in PHP, an open-source, server-side programming language. So when WordPress needs to generate an email, it'll call down to the underlying PHP server and have PHP generate the email message. How this email message is handled and where it's sent for delivery depends on the configuration of the PHP server itself. If you're running WordPress on a shared web host and you don't have direct control over the server, most likely, you don't have the ability to change this configuration. And it's likely that your web host has already configured the PHP server to relay mail through mail servers that they control so that they can make sure their customers aren't using their service to send spam. These mail servers your web host are using might be slow or deliver mail unreliably. Or they may limit the From address that you can use in your outgoing emails. Or they have sending limits that are limiting how much mail you can actually deliver to your users. If this…
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