Bentostudio Mail

Bentostudio Mail is a modular WordPress mail management solution built entirely on native WordPress APIs – no external dependencies, no SaaS account required.

The plugin deliberately focuses on the core functions of SMTP sending and mail logging. For SMTP configuration, it provides a plain SMTP interface only, without pulling in additional third-party service dependencies. The two core areas – SMTP settings and mail logging – can also be used independently of each other: for example, you can configure SMTP sending only, without logging any mails, or use the mail log without changing anything about the SMTP route.

SMTP Sending

• Simple configuration of the SMTP sending method directly in the WordPress backend.
• Technically thorough two-step connection diagnostics: a raw socket probe (fsockopen()) followed by a full PHPMailer handshake with a captured debug transcript.
• Send a live test email to confirm end-to-end delivery.
• Detects other active third-party SMTP plugins and notes that, due to hook load order, its own settings take precedence for actual sending.

Mail Log & Statistics

• Stores sent emails (similar in principle to Flamingo).
• Privacy-friendly by design: data is stored exclusively in your own server’s local database – no external services or cloud connections involved.
• Freely configurable retention by entry count and/or age, helping you apply the data minimization / storage limitation principle required by data protection laws such as GDPR (EU/UK), CCPA/CPRA (California), LGPD (Brazil), PIPA (South Korea), PDPA (Singapore), and DPDPA (India).
• Dashboard with live SMTP status, delivery statistics, and an activity overview.
• Logs failed delivery attempts.
• Identifies the sending source in the statistics (e.g. Contact Form 7, WordPress system notifications).

Role-Based Access Control

• Assign access to the statistics and SMTP settings with a single click.
• Uses WordPress’s existing user roles (Editor, Shop Manager, etc.) – no separate permission system required.
• Four granular capabilities, one per module page.

Other Technical Features

• Clean uninstall: removes the database table and every wp_options entry the plugin ever wrote.