How to Configure SMTP Mail Settings in SMF

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The e-mails we send are sent through this protocol in the majority of the cases. When you click on the Forget password link and receive a mail with a password reset link, The E-mail you get is sent via SMTP in most of the cases.

Companies like ElasticEmail, Mailgun, and Amazon Simple E-mail Services provide SMTP relay servers to allow us to send E-mails from White-listed and high-quality SMTP servers. It is because when you send an E-mail from an IP address that is blacklisted in some of the E-mail services, your E-mails might end up in the Spam folder.

So, when you create an account in any of these services, they provide you SMTP credentials. You can use those SMTP credentials to send E-mails directly from your application. It is actually highly recommended to use this type of service to send E-mails from the application.

In this tutorial, I am going to show you How to set up SMTP settings in SMF.

Configure SMTP Mail Settings in SMF

To configure SMTP, Log in to the admin panel of your SMF account and click on the Admin option given in the main navigation bar.

Then, click on the “Maintenance -> Mail …” option provided in the secondary navigation bar. See the following screenshot for reference.

On this page, you will see two more options in the sub-navigation menu for the section. Click on the Settings option as highlighted below.

On this page, choose Mail type as SMTP and then enter SMTP information like SMTP Host, Port, Username, and password. If you are using the 3rd party services like AWS SES or Mailgun, You can get this information from them.

After entering all the information, click on the Save button given at the bottom-right corner of the page to apply changes.

So, this is how you can configure SMTP Mail settings in SMF. Now, your SMF will use the SMTP server to send E-mails rather than PHP function or some other method. SMTP is one of the best ways to send E-mails directly from the application.

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