CH Mail Delivery

Routes all WordPress email through authenticated SMTP (Brevo) with a configurable From and Reply-To. Deployed across the club hockey site portfolio.

Why

Hostinger shared hosting silently discards unauthenticated PHP mail() (shared 100 emails/day account cap). Every site therefore sends through Brevo SMTP from one authenticated sending domain (connormesec.com — SPF/DKIM/DMARC verified). wp_mail() returning true on this host means nothing; only authenticated SMTP actually delivers.

Settings

Settings → Mail Delivery on each site:

• SMTP host / port / login / key — shared Brevo credentials (one account for the whole portfolio). The key is stored only in that site's database, never in this repo.
• From address — must stay on the authenticated sending domain or mail is dropped again.
• From name — per site; blank = the site's name.
• Reply-To — per site; where replies go (blank = the site admin email). Emails that set their own Reply-To (e.g. tryout notifications) are not overridden.

SMTP routing is skipped on .local (Local dev) hosts so Local's mail catcher keeps working.

Configure via WP-CLI

wp option update ch_maildel_settings --format=json \
  '{"smtp_host":"smtp-relay.brevo.com","smtp_port":"587","smtp_login":"…","smtp_key":"…","from_email":"noreply@connormesec.com","from_name":"","reply_to":""}'

Releasing an update

1. Bump the version in ch-mail-delivery.php (header + CH_MAILDEL_VERSION), commit, push.
2. Create a GitHub release tagged vX.Y.Z and tick "Set as the latest release."
3. Every live site shows the standard update prompt under Plugins within ~6 hours (immediately with a force update check).