Setup Brevo Mailer with FluentSMTP

In FluentSMTP, you can integrate Brevo Mailer to improve email deliverability and authenticity. Brevo Mailer (previously recognized as Sendinblue) is one of the leading mailer options for WordPress, that is reliable and easy to set up.

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

Configuring Brevo Mailer

To learn how to configure the Brevo Mailer with FluentSMTP, follow the steps with screenshots below –

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 Brevo 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: the email address you've verified with Brevo.
• From Name: any name you want, such as a combination of your name and company name.
• Force Sender Name: uses this connection's From Name, whatever name the sending plugin set.
• API Key: obtained from your Brevo account, described in the next section.

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

Get Brevo Mailer API Key

Learn how to get the API Key from Brevo Mailer by following the steps with the screenshots below –

First, log into your Brevo Mailer Account, click the Company Name in the top right corner, and open the SMTP & API tab.

Now, go to the API Keys tab and click the Generate a new API key button.

Give your API Key a Name as per your requirements and click the Generate button and your API will be created.

Here, you will get your API key. Now, press the Copy button and your API Key will be copied.

Then, go back to the desired Add Connection page under Settings from the Fluent SMTP Navbar and paste the API Key you copied from Brevo Mailer inside the API Key box.

Once you input all the necessary information, finally, click the Save Connection Settings button. And, your Brevo Mailer server will be connected to your Fluent SMTP.

Details of Sendinblue API Settings

• Store API Keys in DB: By default, this is enabled and strongly recommended. This will keep the information in the Databases in Encrypted format.

• Store API Keys in Config File: This allows you to store the access keys in the following section inside the wp-config.php file by the following directives.

Simply copy the following snippet and replace the stars with the corresponding credential. Then simply paste it to the wp-config.php file of your WordPress installation

define( 'FLUENTMAIL_SENDINBLUE_API_KEY', '********************' );

Configured Brevo Mailer

Here, you can see that your Brevo Mailer is connected and ready to send emails from your WordPress site.

NOTE

To learn the details about General Settings, read this Documentation. Additionally, it is recommended to send a test email to check whether the configuration is successful or not, to learn how to send a test email in detail, read this Documentation.

That’s all about Configuring FluentSMTP with Brevo Mailer to send emails from the WordPress website.