Maybe I am missing the problem, but if you would use Outlook on your pc, you will also allow it read, compose, send and permanently delete all my email from Gmail if you are using imap.
If you want to keep your email hosting at Gmail and use your webhost’s smtp as mailer, I don’t think that will work.
Maybe I’m going a bit too far off, but if you want to keep it in your own hands, you could try this. Maybe it works for mail hosted at Google.
First, you’ll need to add this snippet to your wp-config.php file — make sure to replace the example data with your own:
// Configures WordPress to use SMTP server
define( 'SMTP_USER', '[email protected]' ); // Username to use for SMTP authentication
define( 'SMTP_PASS', 'SMTP_PASSWORD' ); // Password to use for SMTP authentication
define( 'SMTP_HOST', 'smtp.smtpserver.com' ); // The hostname of the mail server
define( 'SMTP_FROM', '[email protected]' ); // SMTP From email address
define( 'SMTP_NAME', 'FROM_NAME' ); // SMTP From name
define( 'SMTP_PORT', '25' ); // SMTP port number - likely to be 25, 465 or 587
define( 'SMTP_SECURE', 'tls' ); // Encryption system to use - ssl or tls
define( 'SMTP_AUTH', true ); // Use SMTP authentication (true|false)
define( 'SMTP_DEBUG', 0 ); // for debugging purposes only set to 1 or 2
Then, you’ll also need to add this code snippet to the functions.php file of your theme.
// Configures SMTP authentication
add_action( 'phpmailer_init', 'send_smtp_email' );
function send_smtp_email( $phpmailer ) {
$phpmailer->isSMTP();
$phpmailer->Host = SMTP_HOST;
$phpmailer->SMTPAuth = SMTP_AUTH;
$phpmailer->Port = SMTP_PORT;
$phpmailer->Username = SMTP_USER;
$phpmailer->Password = SMTP_PASS;
$phpmailer->SMTPSecure = SMTP_SECURE;
$phpmailer->From = SMTP_FROM;
$phpmailer->FromName = SMTP_NAME;
}
I’m wondering, is there actually a DMARC policy in your zone editor at Dreamhost?
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022808632-Creating-a-DMARC-policy
