Configure Elastic Email with FluentSMTP

With FluentSMTP, you can integrate Elastic Email into WordPress to improve email deliverability and authenticity. Elastic Email provides the API to send emails and it will allow you to send 1000 emails at only $0.10, which is a very low price considering the service they offer.

This article will guide you through integrating Elastic Email into WordPress using the FluentSMTP plugin to send emails via SMTP.

Configuring Elastic Email

Go to Settings in the FluentSMTP top bar. If you haven't set up any connection yet, the setup wizard opens automatically. Otherwise, click the + Add Connection button.

Then select the Elastic Email icon from the provider grid.

NOTE

If you want to change the connection provider, click the change button next to the provider logo at the top of the page.

This opens the connection form, where you provide:

• From Email and From Name
• Force Sender Name: uses this connection's From Name, whatever name the sending plugin set.
• API Key: obtained from your Elastic Email account via the Get API Key link, described in the next section.
• Email Type: choose Transactional for individual messages like password resets and order confirmations, or Marketing for bulk emails like newsletters and campaigns.

The rest of this guide walks through getting the API Key from Elastic Email, then pasting it into this form.

Get Elastic Email API Key

Learn how to get the API Key from Elastic Email by following the steps with the screenshots below –

First, log into your Elastic Email Account, click the Settings section from the left sidebar, and select the Create additional API Key option.

Give your API Key a Name as per your requirements. You can also set the Expiration Date and access restrictions if needed. Then give the necessary Custom Permissions and click the Create button, and your API key will be created.

Here, you will get your API key in the New API Key box. Press the Copy button and your API Key will be copied.

Then, go back to the Add Connection page under Settings in the FluentSMTP top bar, and paste the API Key you copied from Elastic Email inside the API Key box.

Once you input all the necessary information, click the Save Connection Settings button. Your Elastic Email server will be connected to your FluentSMTP.

Details of Elastic Email API Settings

• Store in Database: By default, this is enabled and strongly recommended. This will keep the information in the database in encrypted format. Tick Disable Encryption for API Key (Not Recommended) only if a security plugin rotates your SALT keys and the encrypted value keeps breaking.
• Store in wp-config.php: This allows you to store the access key inside the wp-config.php file by the following directive.

Copy the snippet below, replace the stars with your own credential, and paste it into your site's wp-config.php file.

define( 'FLUENTMAIL_ELASTICMAIL_API_KEY', '********************' );

That's all about configuring FluentSMTP with Elastic Email to send emails from the WordPress website.