Read and manage your email without leaving WordPress.
PressedMail turns your dashboard into an email workspace. Connect the mailbox you already have over IMAP and SMTP, then read, write, search and organize mail in WordPress. Your address and provider stay the same.
A real email client inside WordPress
- Read and reply from the dashboard.
- Compose in rich text, Markdown or plain text.
- Browse Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Trash and other folders.
- Follow threads and search your mail.
- Move, star and mark messages read, unread or important.
- Create email rules and custom tags to organize mail.
- Preview images and PDFs, download attachments, and send your own.
- Use it on desktop, tablet or phone.
PressedMail Free
PressedMail Free connects one mailbox per site and gives it the whole client: inbox, reading, composing, search, folders, tags, rules and mailbox management, with no subscription or time limit.
PressedMail Pro, a separate edition
Pro is for when one mailbox is not enough, or you want more done for you. It adds:
- Connect multiple mailboxes and read them in one combined inbox.
- AI tools and phishing checks, with your own provider or PressedMail AI: summaries, drafts, replies, spam and phishing warnings.
- Contacts and a calendar beside your mail, with an Add to calendar button on invitations.
- Auto-replies, scheduled send, snooze and undo send.
- More themes and layouts.
- Ultimate plan: shared inboxes, calendars and contact lists, white labelling with a brand theme.
Pro shares this interface; replacing Free with Pro keeps your accounts, settings and data. Pro is a separate GPL-compatible paid plugin, not part of this download.
See plans and pricing or
read the documentation.
Security controls for reading email
Mail opens in an isolated viewer with sanitized HTML. Remote images are blocked by default, so opening a message contacts no image server. WordPress permissions keep the mailbox with its owner.
Use your existing email provider
Any IMAP/SMTP account works where your host permits the connection. Setup offers Gmail (app password), Outlook, Hotmail and Custom Email for cPanel, Zoho Mail, Fastmail and similar. Microsoft accounts use Microsoft sign-in, the only method Microsoft 365 accepts for IMAP.
Send WordPress site email through SMTP
Password resets, notifications, receipts and other wp_mail() messages can go through SMTP, set up and tested under Settings, WordPress Email.
WordPress integration
On WordPress 6.9 and later, mail actions register as WordPress abilities for MCP Adapter agents and WP-CLI, with the same permission checks.
No PressedMail account needed
No license key required and no trial expiration. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no license checks and no custom update checks. Updates come from
WordPress.org. Provider terms, limits and charges apply.
- In Plugins > Add New, search for PressedMail, install and activate it.
- Open PressedMail in the sidebar and connect your mailbox.
PressedMail needs WordPress 6.6+, PHP 8.2+, and MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.2+ with named locks and the user metadata table on InnoDB. SQLite cannot finish mailbox setup. Site Health flags this under "PressedMail database requirements".