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How to Connect Your Own SMTP Server for Sending Emails?


How to Connect Your Own SMTP Server for Sending Emails?

Why is it worth doing this?

  • Sending emails from your own mailbox is much more effective than using our shared address

  • Emails are sent faster

  • The chance of them ending up in spam is much lower

  • This solution is also more reliable in case of global outages


How to connect your own mailbox step by step?

  1. On the top menu, select Settings, then Configuration

  2. On the tile named Integrations, click the See button

  3. Go to the Notifications tab (the option is located just below the tab name)

  4. On the Custom SMTP Server tile, click the Create button

  5. After clicking the button, a configuration window will open, as shown below. You will have to fill up the data:

 


To enable the integration, you need to provide the following data:

  • Host → This is the mail server address. For example, for Gmail it will be smtp.gmail.com. For other providers, you need to find the SMTP connection settings in your mailbox configuration.

  • Port → Just like the host, this information must be found in your mailbox settings. For example, Gmail uses 465 for SSL encryption or 587 for TLS encryption.

  • Encryption → Select whether it is SSL or TLS, according to the chosen port above.

  • Username → Usually, this is the email address you are using.

  • Password → The password to your email account.

  • From title → Enter the email address you are using.

  • From E-mail → Enter the email address you are using.

 

  1. Click the Test button in the top-right corner to check whether the connection has been configured correctly.

  2. Mark the integration as Active and click Save.


Now deactivate the previous integration.

 

  1. Go back to the notification configuration view and on the ParkFlow SMTP tile, click the Edit button.

  2. Mark the configuration as Inactive and click Save.