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Asked: 2026-05-22T13:10:14+00:00

note: I’m working on wordpress but this isn’t a wordpress question. I have a

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note: I’m working on wordpress but this isn’t a wordpress question.

I have a wordpress site sitting on my local machine and I need it to send emails to newly registered users.
I managed doing it with a plugin.
As a mail server I’m using the SMTP server of the host of my online websites (justhost).
The settings I’m using are:

SMTP Host: mail.mydomain.com
SMTP Port: 2626
Authentication: SMTP authentication
username: my username on justhost
password: my password on justhost

In the Encryption setting I chose no encryption, since this is the only way I managed sending a mail. SSL encryption didn’t work.

So my question is: is this unsafe? Are the message contents exposed?
And more importantly – are my username and password exposed?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If there is an attacker between you and your SMTP server he can intercept the message. And I think your password is exposed too.

    But why don’t you simply look into your traffic with wireshark?

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