---
title: "How to View Your WordPress Mail Logs"
description: "Are you missing emails from your WordPress site? As we continue our series on the WP Mail Logging plugin, we will now show you how to view your WordPress Mail logs. This is an important step when..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/email/view-mail-logs/
date: 2018-10-11
modified: 2022-02-10
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Email", "WordPress Hosting", "WordPress Tutorials"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to View Your WordPress Mail Logs

Are you missing emails from your WordPress site? As we continue our series on the [WP Mail Logging](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/email/general-settings/) plugin, we will now show you how to **view your WordPress Mail logs**. This is an important step when troubleshooting email problems in WordPress. For example, you may not be receiving messages from contact form or password reset email.

**Note:** You must [install the WP Mail Logging](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/email/how-to-install-7/) plugin before following this guide.

![How to View WordPress Mail Logs in the Dashboard](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/0jIc0gFi_Ik/maxresdefault.webp)

*Don’t have time to read the full guide? Watch our walk-through video.*

## View Mail Logs

1. [Log into your WordPress Dashboard](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard/).
2. Go to **Tools** then **WP Mail Log** in the navigation menu.
3. You will then see a list of emails sent from your WordPress site. Click the **View** button next to the email you want to check.![View Logged WordPress Email Logs](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wordpress_wp-mail-logging_view-wordpress-mail-logs.png)
4. You can then view the contents of the email that was sent. Click the message format options to change between **html**, **raw**, and **json**.![Select WordPress Mail Log Message Format](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wordpress_wp-mail-logging_wordpress-mail-log-format.png)
5. Click the **Close** button to return to the mail log list.![Close Mail Log List](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wordpress_wp-mail-logging_close-mail-log.png)

Congratulations, now you know how to **view your WordPress Mail logs**! In the next guide, we will show you [how to resend an email from WordPress](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/email/resend-email/).

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