📨Email Settings (SMTP)

SMTP, or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a critical component of your website's email functionality. It serves as the backbone for sending and delivering emails from your website to recipients' mail servers. Configuring SMTP is an essential step in ensuring that your website's email services work seamlessly. Without proper SMTP configuration, your reseller won't be able to send any emails.

Using Gmail as your SMTP server can be a reliable and convenient way to send emails from your website. Below, you'll find a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up and use Gmail as your SMTP server.

If you prefer, we found this google video that explains how to do the google part :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MqVdG9w_lYwww.youtube.com

How to enable SMTP on your account

Written version of the tutorial :

1. If you don't already have a Gmail account, visit Gmail and sign up for one. You'll need this account to send emails through Gmail's SMTP server. I recommend that you create a gmail account just for your reseller. For example [e-mail].

2. First, you need to enable 2FA on your Gmail account.

   1. Go to Two-step validation.

   2. Follow steps and enable 2FA.

3. Once two-factor authentication has been activated, you'll need to create an application password.

   1. Go to App Passwords.

   2. Click on "Select App" and select "Other".

   3. Enter a random name, for example : Mails or SMTP.

   4. Click on Generate.

   5. You'll see a string of characters highlighted in yellow, save this password.

4. Now you need to provide your SMTP server access to your Reseller Area.

   1. Go to Email Settings.

   2. For Hostname, enter smtp.gmail.com

   3. For Port, enter 587

   4. For SMTP Secure Type, select TLS

   5. For Username, enter your email. For my example its [e-mail].

   6. For Password, enter the application password you created above.