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Can you use SMTP to send email on Magento?
What is SMTP for Magento? Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) allows your Magento 2 store to send email through a specific third-party mail SMTP server. You can configure your Magento store to use your Gmail, Amazon, Microsoft or any other mail server account to send all your emails.
How to customize the email function in Magento?
To customize the email function of Magento we will need to create a transport builder class, extending “Magento\\Framework\\Mail\\Template\\TransportBuilder”. In our example, we will add the function to send pdf and images attachments to the email
How many email accounts are there in Magento 2?
According to Hubspot , active Email accounts are expected to hit 5.6 billion by 2019. This clearly shows that when there are more platforms to communicate with the audience than ever before, the Email is still a popular platform. The Magento 2 store owners can make the most out of it by sending various types of Emails such as
Why is my SMTP server saying STARTTLS failed?
When the SMTP server has a self-signed certificate, it can show up the “SMTP: STARTTLS failed” error. For example, servers having PHP 5.6 will verify peer certificates and host names by default when using SSL/TLS. Therefore, it is a requirement that the certificate name and hostname should match.
What causes PHP verification to fail in SMTP?
Recently, we saw this error when the server was sending the SMTP EHLO command as “localhost” instead of the real hostname. This made PHP’s verification to fail and report error. Again, the error can pop up when the SMTP server name is wrongly configured in the application as well.
Do you need a SSL certificate for SMTP?
Last, but not the least, proper SSL certificate for the mail server is also needed for mail to work. Therefore, our Security Engineers set up mail server with valid SSL certificate that matches the server name. Additionally, when server uses PEAR packages, we ensure that the module Net_SMTP do support TLS too.
How do I set up Gmail as a SMTP provider?
In the SMTP Provider field, choose Gmail (choose other if you’re using it) Click Auto Fill button to fill Host, Port, Authentication and Protocol will be automatically filled up to match Gmail provider you had chosen.
How do I send mail to another Gmail address?
Then, scroll down to the Send Test Email section to try sending a mail to another email address. Enter another Gmail address in the Send To field, then click Test Now.
How do I Auto Fill my Gmail account?
Click Auto Fill button to fill Host, Port, Authentication and Protocol will be automatically filled up to match Gmail provider you had chosen. In the Username and Password field, fill the gmail account you just have setup in the mentioned STEP 1. In Test Email Recipient, enter the email you want to sent to.