Hi @stevedurko
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review, though we are sorry to hear that you were put off by the advertising of our premium features.
The lite/free version of WP Mail SMTP is designed to provide everything you need to send emails reliably. So once you have set up a mailer you can immediately improve your email deliverability.
As mentioned in our?plugin description, the Pro version of WP Mail SMTP provides additional features if needed.
Screenshot: https://a.supportally.com/i/PzChxv
Is there a particular feature that you were upset was a premium feature and not included in the free version?
I ask because if you were looking for a standalone Email Logging plugin, then you can look into using the?WP Mail Logging?plugin which does just that.
We still recommend pairing it with WP Mail SMTP to ensure that your emails are sent successfully because WP Mail Logging tracks email send attempts, it doesn’t check for delivery statuses.
I hope this helps clear things up and again, we apologize for the confusion.