# Neither Mailhog nor SMTP functioning **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/neither-mailhog-nor-smtp-functioning/20380 "2020-06-22T00:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EricT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/erict/32/10774_2.png) [@EricT](https://community.localwp.com/u/EricT)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/neither-mailhog-nor-smtp-functioning/20380/1 "2020-06-22T00:52:33Z")
Greetings, I’m using Local to create a test Wordpress site on my Windows 10 computer. I use the WP plugin “Check Email” to send out a test email, but Mailhog doesn’t catch it. So, looking at this forum, I saw that maybe I needed to upgrade to Local 5.6.1, which I did. But, still no luck with Mailhog. Then, I read that SMTP bypasses Mailhog, and that maybe I could actually send out an email out into the internet? So, I installed various SMTP plugins in WP to help with that, and the SMTP server I’m trying to use is called SMTP2GO, which gives me a SMTP username/password to use, as well as the name of its server, all of which are needed in the SMTP plugins. But, when I try to send an email I keep getting the error that the FROM address is not recognized, even though the URL matches my locally created website (.local) Does anyone have any helpful insights what I could be doing wrong? Thanks for reading and for your help. ---
**Author:** ![meeae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@meeae](https://community.localwp.com/u/meeae)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/neither-mailhog-nor-smtp-functioning/20380/2 "2020-06-25T16:34:52Z")
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**Author:** ![meeae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@meeae](https://community.localwp.com/u/meeae)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/neither-mailhog-nor-smtp-functioning/20380/3 "2020-06-25T16:34:52Z")