# Site email

Route everything WordPress sends with wp_mail() through your verified sending domain, with no SMTP to configure.

A WordPress server usually sends mail as itself, from an address on a domain with no authentication behind
it, which is why password resets end up in spam. Switching this on sends them from your verified sending
domain over HTTPS instead. There is no SMTP host, port or password to get wrong.

## What it covers

Everything that goes through `wp_mail()`, which is nearly everything: password resets, new user
notifications, comment moderation, WooCommerce order confirmations, booking and membership plugins, contact
form notifications. None of them need a setting of their own.

## Turning it on

1. [Verify a sending domain](https://sendbeam.io/docs/getting-started/sending-domain) in SendBeam if you have not.
2. Give the site's API key the **Send site email** permission
  (`transactional:send`).
3. **Settings → SendBeam → Site email**, tick *Send this site's email through SendBeam*, and save.

## Who it appears to come from

Leave **From name** and **From address** empty and each message keeps whatever the
sending plugin set, falling back to the workspace sender. Set them to override both. The address must be on
a domain verified in the workspace — that is the whole point of the exercise.

## If SendBeam cannot send

**Fall back to the server's own mailer** is on, and should stay on. A refused or failed message
then goes out the way it did before the plugin, so a password reset still arrives. Turn it off only if you
would rather a message failed loudly than left unauthenticated.

## What is not sent

- **Messages with attachments** are left to the server's mailer.
- **Addresses that previously bounced or complained** are refused, as everywhere else in
  SendBeam.

Recipients do not need to be contacts, and someone who unsubscribed from your newsletter still gets their
receipt — this is transactional mail, kept separate from marketing.

## Checking it works

**Send a test email** on the same tab sends one to your own address using the saved settings and
reports exactly what happened. Below it, **Recent site email** lists the last twenty messages
and whether each went through SendBeam, fell back to the server, or failed.

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Source: https://sendbeam.io/docs/wordpress/site-email