Setting Up the SendLayer Mailer

In this tutorial, we’ll cover how to use the SendLayer mailer with Easy WP SMTP.


Before getting started, you’ll need to ensure Easy WP SMTP is installed and activated on your WordPress site.

1. Setting Up a SendLayer Account

To connect your WordPress site with SendLayer, you’ll need an active SendLayer account. If you don’t already have one, follow SendLayer’s guidelines for setting up a new account.

Once you’ve established a SendLayer account, log into your SendLayer dashboard. You’re now ready to start the mailer setup process, which we’ll go through in the following steps.

2. Authorizing a Domain in SendLayer

To use SendLayer for email sending, you’ll need to authorize your domain. This authorization process proves to email servers that you’re the verified owner of the sending domain and that the emails are being sent from a trustworthy source.

For a step-by-step explanation of the domain authorization process, see SendLayer’s guide to authorizing a domain.

3. Configuring Easy WP SMTP Settings

Once you’ve authorized your domain in SendLayer, you can go ahead and configure your Easy WP SMTP settings. To access the settings from the WordPress dashboard, go to Easy WP SMTP » Settings.

Easy WP SMTP Plugin settings

In the next steps, we’ll go through each of the settings located on this page.

Mailer Settings

Select the SendLayer option from the list of available mailers. Once you choose SendLayer, more settings related to this mailer will appear.

Select SendLayer mailer

API Key

Go to your SendLayer dashboard to locate your SendLayer API key. For details on locating your API key, check out SendLayer’s guide to managing API keys.

Once you’ve obtained your API key, paste it into the API Key field.

add-sendlayer-api-key

General Settings

From Email

The From Email is the email address that your WordPress site’s emails are sent from. For emails to deliver correctly, this email address must match the sending domain you authorized in SendLayer. For example, if you authorized example.com as your domain, the From Email must contain @example.com.

We also strongly recommend turning on the Force From Email box. If enabled, your From Email will be used for all emails sent from your site, ignoring values set by other plugins.

from-email-address

From Name

The From Name is the name that appears in the emails sent from your site, letting the recipient know who sent the email. By default, the From Name is set to your site’s name. However, you can change the name to whatever you’d like.

Similarly, you can enable the Force From Name toggle to apply the settings site-wide.

from-name

Backup Connection

Configuring a Backup Connection is an optional step in your Brevo mailer setup. However, to further improve email deliverability, we recommend configuring an additional connection to serve as a backup in case your Primary Connection fails.

Backup connection

Note: If you’d like to learn how to send emails through different connections based on specific rules, please refer to our Smart Routing tutorial.

Once you’re done configuring the general settings, be sure to click Save Settings to save your changes.

Save settings

That’s it! You’ve now successfully set up the SendLayer mailer with Easy WP SMTP.