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Yandex Mail SMTP Server for WordPress

by Ozan Canakli · Email & Marketing

Also makes 2 other plugins · 2.4K+ installs across the portfolio →

Connect to Yandex SMTP server to automatically send emails from your WordPress site through the Yandex SMTP server instead of PHP mail().

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 63 average across 1,297 Email & Marketing plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.23, well behind 6.8.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 17/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2462 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+54% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

213

now · peak 346

21330d downloads · Aug 26

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

Yandex Mail SMTP Ser · #4959 you Yandex Mail · #10119 WP Mail SMTP by WPFo · #12 FluentSMTP · #101

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

107per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-11-22 · 1,424 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.2
Last updated
6.7y ago
Added
2019-01-05 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.3.23
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. kibwot9
    5.0y ago

    Plugin is no longer supported on the newest WP versions. This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by kibwot9.

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  2. photozone
    5.9y ago

    Problem solved! Yandex does not trust external mail clients, so you need to enter Yandex Mail interface and check necessary boxes in security settings to make plugin work. This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by photozone.

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  3. Oğuzhan
    6.3y ago

    Spam sorununu ve Yandex ile senkronize yapması çok iyi. Tebrikler hocam

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  4. wp_maybe
    6.3y ago

    that’s the way it is

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  5. coolwater70tr
    6.7y ago

    Thanks for that Free Plugin , simple and working so good . I advice everyone. congratulations . Ücretsiz uygulama için teşekkürler. kolay ve çok iyi çalışıyor . Herkeze tavsiye ederim . Tebrikler .

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  6. xmaximus1x
    7.3y ago

    i add all setting inside cloudflare mx record and smtp its does not work smtp.yandex.net smtp.yandex.com smtp.yandex.ru with 10 priority

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  7. Anonymous User 16848024
    7.6y ago

    pluggin stuck in my wordpress pluggins , does not work and i don’t need it, i’m going to contact the wordpress support for help now

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  8. xandrapalmer
    7.6y ago

    This solved my problems. Setup in 10 seconds. Goodbye spam foldr 🙂

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.0.2 Fixes WordPress compatibility. 1.0.2
  2. Version 1.0.1 Fixed deletion failed error. 1.0.1
  3. Version 1.0.0 Initial release. 1.0.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-09-30 3K+ → 2K+ down after 513 days in tier
  2. 2023-05-06 4K+ → 3K+ down

Competes with

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