Improve Email Spam Score – Improves forms phpmail spam score
by Teet Bergmann · Email & Marketing
This plugin adds a email return-path and envelope-from address to the wp_mail () function. Which reduces the spam score sent from your website form.
75 health vs 65 average across 782 Email & Marketing plugins
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2024-10-10 · 645 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
42
now · peak 170
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 300+ in roughly 178 days.
Install history · since 2024-10-10 · 640 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-06 100+ → 200+ up after 4 days in band
- 2026-03-02 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-02-28 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-27 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-02-25 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-24 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in band
- 2026-02-21 100+ → 200+ up after 14 days in band
- 2026-02-07 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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SMTP Mailer 70K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Zoho Mail for WordPress 20K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
WPO365 | MICROSOFT 365 GRAPH MAILER 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Configure SMTP 6K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags C -
MailerSend – Official SMTP Integration 2K+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags B
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