Title: Email Trap
Author: soliddigital
Published: <strong>July 22, 2020</strong>
Last modified: April 3, 2021

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Email Trap

 By [soliddigital](https://profiles.wordpress.org/soliddigital/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/email-trap.1.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/email-trap/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/email-trap/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/email-trap/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/email-trap/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-trap/)

## Description

An email trap that sends emails to the address of your choice. Built for use on 
staging or development environments, to stop WordPress or its plugins from sending
emails out to anyone except the site administrator. Good for testing aspects of 
your WordPress site that rely emails being sent.

To use the plugin, simply activate it.

You can dynamically disable the plugin using the email_trap_enable filter.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Email-trap adds a control to the dashboard that simplifies the process of setting
   the email address to which emails are redirected.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `email-trap` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Make sure the admin email address is one you have access to, so you can view the
    trapped emails.

## FAQ

### Which address are emails redirected to?

Whichever one your site has in the “admin email” input of the Email Trap’s Options
panel.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Email Trap” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ soliddigital ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/soliddigital/)
 *   [ peterajtai ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterajtai/)

[Translate “Email Trap” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/email-trap)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-trap/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/email-trap/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/email-trap/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/email-trap/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Plugin now exists

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixing a bug with the default email_trap_enable value

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.7.15**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-trap/)
 * Tags
 * [email](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email/)[security](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/email-trap/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ soliddigital ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/soliddigital/)
 *   [ peterajtai ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterajtai/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-trap/)