Moodle Admins – Use Moodle email test plugin to troubleshoot your email bugs

Moodle is one of the most popular learning management system (LMS) in the world. It is being used by more than 350 million users around the world across 240 countries. There are many exciting features in Moodle which helped it gained so much popularity. One such feature is the robust notifications and email delivery system.

The robust notification as well as email delivery system triggers notifications/emails for users depending on the action required. For example, for any upcoming assignment submissions, the students will receive a notification as well as email before the due date. However, there may be times when the Moodle administrators faces problems with emails delivery.

The Moodle email test plugin is developed by Michael Milette which helps you to test Moodle’s email system. Please note this function is intended for Moodle administrators only.

You can download the latest version of the Moodle Email test plugin from the official plugins directory here. In case you are new to Moodle you can follow this guide to learn how to install a Moodle plugin.

The plugin will generate a trace of the SMTP dialogue will be displayed if the email message cannot be sent for any reason. Once you send the test message you can check it out in your inbox or otherwise you will see the error.

The plugin is pretty helpful for Moodle administrators to troubleshoot problems with email delivery to the students and other users. The plugin is maintained very well over past many years by the developer. In case you are having troubles with email notifications in Moodle, you can use this plugin to troubleshoot.

What are the other Moodle plugins which you are using on your Moodle site? Please share with us in the comments section below.