Configuring Your Outgoing Email Server

To configure the outgoing mail server, create a Global Setting with the name external.service.email_smtp_settings.

The value of the setting is a JSON string, as follows:

{ "address": "smtp address", "port": "smtp port", "user_name": "username", "password": "password", "domain": "domain that email is sent from" }

The parameters are as follows:

ParameterDescriptionExample
addressdomain name of the smtp serversmtp.mandrillapp.com
portport number the smtp server uses587
usernameyour username for smtp serversomeone@mycompany.com
passwordyour password for smtp serverabracadabra
domaindomain name you use for email addressesmycompany.com