“A lead went missing on Tuesday” used to mean opening the right site, finding the right form, and scrolling. Now it means typing “tuesday’s client email” into one search box.
The dashboard Mail Log
The new Mail Log gives you a searchable, cross-site view of every form check result. Filter by site, form, delivery status, or date range, or type any text to search by email address, subject line, error message, or the page the form lives on.
Two jobs it makes trivial:
- Forensics. A client asks about a specific enquiry. Search the address, see exactly what Formitor observed around that time: checks passing, delivery times, any failure with its error.
- Patterns. Filter to failures across all sites for the last 30 days and spot the shape: one flaky host, one SMTP provider degrading, one form that fails every Sunday.
Same power inside wp-admin
The plugin’s Mail Log tab (v0.2.17) got the matching filter bar: search by recipient, subject, form name, or page URL; narrow to one form; limit to the last 7 or 30 days. Filters compose and stay active while you page through results or switch between the All / Sent / Failed / Formitor tests / Real mail tabs.
So whether you’re in the central dashboard or standing inside one site’s wp-admin, the answer to “what happened to that email” is a search away.
Why logs earn their keep
Monitoring tells you something broke. Logs tell you what, when, and what it looked like, which is the difference between “we’re investigating” and an answer in the client thread five minutes later.