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The can be integrated with an existing SMTP server for delivering emails to users of the platform. This configuration is necessary if the following features are enabled:

Users are required to validate their email addresses after self-registration. Both of these options must be enabled. See Configure User Self-Registration.
Users are permitted to reset their passwords. See Enable Self-Service Password Reset.

Limitations

NOTE: Installation and use of custom certificates on the is not supported.

Configure

To enable, please complete the following.

NOTE: If you are planning to enable SSL for communicating with the SMTP server, you must generate first a certificate for the server that is not self-signed.

Steps:

Edit the SMTP settings:

"smtp.host": "<SMTP_HOST>",
"smtp.port": "587"
"smtp.username": "<EMAIL_ACCT_USERNAME>",
"smtp.password": "<EMAIL_ACCT_PWD>",
"smtp.enableSSL": true

Setting Description

host Hostname of the SMTP server

port Port number to use to contact the SMTP server. 587 is the default value.

username

Username of the email account to use to send emails to users.

NOTE: This username appears in the email message.

password Password of the email account to use.


                enableSSL

Set to true, if the SMTP server is configured to use SSL. Default is true.

NOTE: When SSL is enabled for the email server, its certificate cannot be self-signed.

Save your changes and restart the platform.

Test

If it's been enabled, you can reset user password. See Enable Self-Service Password Reset.

If not, you can use an external testing method to verify that the SMTP server is working properly.