Email Log
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About
Log and view all outgoing emails from WordPress. Very useful if you have to debug email related problems or have to store sent emails for auditing.
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What It Does
Email Log hooks into WordPress's wp_mail function and records every outgoing email sent by your site, storing the recipient, subject, headers, and body in a custom database table. You can view, search, and resend these logged emails from a dedicated admin screen, which makes it straightforward to diagnose why a transactional email did not arrive or to keep a record of what was sent. It does not send mail itself, so it works alongside whatever delivery method your site already uses.
Who It's For
This plugin fits administrators and developers who need a lightweight, no-frills audit trail of every email WordPress sends, particularly on staging or production sites where diagnosing delivery failures is a regular task. It is also a reasonable fit for small businesses and compliance-minded teams that want to retain copies of transactional messages for internal review. Sites running WooCommerce, membership platforms, or any form-driven site will benefit from being able to confirm what was actually mailed to whom.
Who Should Skip It
If you already rely on an SMTP plugin with built-in logging, such as WP Mail SMTP, Post SMTP, or Easy WP SMTP, installing Email Log on top of it is redundant and adds another database table to maintain. It is also not the right choice if you need SMTP routing, deliverability controls, or DNS-level authentication setup, since this plugin strictly observes outgoing mail rather than configuring how it gets delivered.
The Bottom Line
Email Log is a focused, well-maintained utility that does one job, capturing outgoing emails, and does it cleanly without forcing you into a particular SMTP provider. With an overall score of 82.06/100 and a perfect maintenance rating, it is a safe pick when you need logging in isolation, but most WordPress sites are better served by an SMTP plugin that bundles logging with proper mail delivery configuration. Treat it as a specialist tool, not a default install.
Related Plugins
Pick this if you actually need to fix email deliverability through proper SMTP routing, since it offers logging as one feature among many and has four million installs to lean on.
Choose Post SMTP when you want logging plus advanced failovers, alerts, and a mobile app for monitoring mail delivery on the go.
Pick Mailchimp for WordPress only if your real goal is Mailchimp list and form integration, since logging is not its primary feature.
Choose Easy WP SMTP if you want SMTP configuration with logging bundled in, particularly for Gmail, Office 365, or Outlook setups.
Pick WP Mail Logging if you want a dedicated logging-only plugin with a more active update cadence and broader WordPress compatibility testing than Email Log.