Question

Yandex SMTP is too slow.

Posted on July 18, 2017
Ubuntu 16.04 Email
Asked by oacar

Hello everyone,

I have a wordpress droplet. I am using yandex mail on my domain but whenever I try with “contact form” on my page, it takes minutes to send the message.

I checked the entire forum and saw similiar problems with gmail. and to be honest with you I couldnt understand the exact solution.

I wonder will you please tell me to step by step solution. I am sure it will be helpful for the others too.

thanks in advance.

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oacar • July 20, 2017

Accepted Answer

SOLUTION

sudoedit /etc/gai.conf

and than I added precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100

and sudo service apache2 restart

alexdo

Site Moderator

• October 26, 2021

Hello all,

What I could suggest here is using an SMTP plugin for your WordPress site.

That way you will be able to specify an SMTP server with authentication which your emails would be going through. You could for example use Gmail’s SMTP settings. This would drastically increase the delivery rate of your emails as well compared to using plain PHP mail.

I’ve been using this plugin for a while now and it works very well: Easy WP SMTP

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex

djdeniro • July 19, 2018

HI, i have same problem. Yandex Mail not working on my droplet