Outlook.com Settings for WP Mail SMTP
After migrating this blog to WordPress I found that I needed to setup email notifications for comments and the like. I ended up using the WP Mail SMTP plugin with Outlook.com. Anyway, Here are the settings that worked for using Outlook.com as an SMTP server for WordPress notifications.
From Email: Any email that you own that uses Outlook.com, Live.com or Hotmail
From name: Any Name you want.
Mailer: Send all WordPress Email via SMTP
Return Path: Unchecked
SMTP Host: smtp.live.com
SMTP Port: 587
Encryption: Use TLS Encryption. This is not the same as STARTTLS. For most servers SSL is the recommended option.
Authentication: Yes: Use SMTP Authentication
Username: Your Outlook.com email including the @outlook.com, @live.com or @hotmail.com
Password: Your Outlook, Live or Hotmail password.
Use the “Send a Test Email” section to make sure everything works.
If you have a firewall setup (and you should), you’ll have to let that traffic out as well. If you are using Linux and iptables here are the iptables rules that allow that traffic to get out while still blocking new incoming connections on port 587.
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp –sport 587 -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp –dport 587 -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –sport 587 -m state –state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
And now you’ve got WordPress using Outlook.com for all of the notifications. Rejoice!