SMTP service settings
Mailtrap
1.1 Registering with Mailtrap. Go to the official website https://mailtrap.io/.If you don't have an account yet, click the Sign Up button in the top right corner and complete the registration. If you already have an account — use the Log In button to sign in.
1.2 When creating an account you can sign in via Google, GitHub or Office 365. If you want to register using an email address, click the Sign Up With Your Email.
1.3 If you chose to register by email (Sign Up With Your Email), fill in the three fields: Email — your email address. Password — the password. Confirmation — password confirmation.
1.4 After registering a confirmation window will open. An email from Mailtrap will be sent to your mailbox to confirm the account. In the email click the Confirm my accountbutton to complete the confirmation process.
1.5 You will then be redirected to the login page of MailtrapEnter the credentials you used during registration to log into the account.
1.6 The next step is to fill out the Mailtrapform. Please answer their questions.
For the question Which product(s) do you plan to use? select Email API / SMTP.
For the question Which domain will you use for sending emails? specify the domain from which you plan to send emails. To start sending emails through Mailtrap, you need to add this domain.
1.7 To verify the domain go to the menu Sending Domains and select the domain from which you plan to send emails.
1.8 Next you will see the domain verification management page. Below Mailtrap will show which DNS records need to be added to verify the domain.
Go to your Cloudflareaccount where the domain is registered and select the appropriate domain to add the DNS records.
Click the DNS menu to add the required DNS records.
On the next page click the Add record button and fill in the data provided by Mailtrap.
Important! If the DNS record type is CNAME, when adding the record in Cloudflare be sure to disable the orange cloud (Proxy status) so that it appears gray, as shown in the example below.
After entering the record click the Save to save.
button. Your DNS records in Cloudflare.
should look approximately like this Mailtrap and click the Return to your account Verify DNS records
to check the entries you added.
Important: verification may take some time, so not all records may be verified immediately.
1.9 After you see that your domain is verified via DNS records, you can proceed to the next step — filling in the sender information. After clicking the button to fill in the sender information a modal window will open. Complete the appropriate fields and then click the to save.
Submit Mailtrapbutton. After filling in the contact information you need to wait about 2 minutes, as indicated in for the completion of the compliance check (Complete compliance check).
1.11 If Mailtrap deems that the information is insufficient and additional information is required, a Fill in Compliance Form. button will appear. Click this button and complete the form.
1.12 After successful verification go to the Integration tab and select the Transactional Streamtype. If a Create a tokenbutton appears, click it. A window with the generated token will open — save it, you will need it to configure SMTP in your admin panel.
1.13 SMTP setup in the admin panel:
Go to the admin panel: Settings → SMTP Settings.
In the Host: enter the value from Mailtrap (Host), for example: live.smtp.mailtrap.io.
In the Port: enter the value from Mailtrap (Port), it is recommended to use 587.
In the Username: enter one of the values from Mailtrap (Username), for example api or smtp@mailtrap.io.
In the Password: enter the generated Mailtrap token.
In the Sender address: specify noreply@YOURDOMAIN.
In the Sender name: you can specify any name convenient for you.
TurboSMTP
2.1 Registering with TurboSMTP. Go to the official website https://serversmtp.com/. To register a new account or sign in to an existing one click the Register.
2.2 For registration you can sign in via Google or enter your email, first name and last name, then click the Register.
button. 2.3 If you receive the notification:“This email address is intended exclusively for account registration and access. Later, you can set up other domain-based addresses to use as senders.” , try signing in via
Google. Google 2.4 After successful authentication via Register.
fill in the form with your email, first name and last name and click the button. and 2.5 In the second step of registration you need to fill in the required fields:Company Name Phone Number
. After filling them in click the Continue.
2.6 On the third step fill in the address information. After filling it in click the
Complete. 2.7 After completing all the steps this window will appear.You should receive an email to confirm your address — in the email click the
Confirm my email button. After that you need to wait: a password for logging into the account will be sent to the email address you provided.
2.8 After that you should receive a second email with the keys. To log into the account use the Username and Password values from the email. 2.9 The next step is domain verification. After logging into the dashboard click the Sender Domains Verification..
In the window that opens a button will appear on the right Add Domain
— click it
2.10 Specify the domain from which you plan to send emails and click the Cloudflareaccount where the domain is registered and select the appropriate domain to add the DNS records.
Click the DNS menu to add the required DNS records.
On the next page click the Add record button and fill in the data provided by TurboSMTP.
After entering the record click the Save Add Domain.
2.11 Next you will see instructions which DNS records need to be added to verify the domain
2.12 For this go to your account
to save. SPF record Type: TXT Name/Host: enter @ Value/Content: copy the one provided by TurboSMTP (v=spf1 a mx include:spf.turbo-smtp.com ?all) Save the record with the Save button. TurboSMTP DKIM record Type: TXT Name/Host: turbo-smtp._domainkey Value/Content: copy the key provided by TurboSMTP Save the record with the Save button. DMARC record Type: TXT Name/Host: _dmarc Value/Content: copy the value v=DMARC1; p=none; Save the record with the Save button.
2.13 After adding all the records return to and click the OK button. Important:
the domain may not be verified immediately. Wait until all three records are successfully checked. To speed up the process, periodically click the OK Verify button next to the domain. Also after clicking
you may see the message:
“A DNS record was found but appears to be incorrectly formatted or has an invalid value.”
If you entered everything correctly in Cloudflare, then the changes simply have not yet propagated. When the domain is successfully verified you will see the verification status. Below is an example of how it looks. 2.14 SMTP setup in the admin panel:
First obtain the credentials for connection: go to the menu Connecting via SMTPin your TurboSMTP account.
Host: Go to your site's admin panel:Settings → SMTP Settings. Fill in the fields: the value from TurboSMTP (.
Port: Go to your site's admin panel:PortSMTP Server
), for example Go to your site's admin panel:pro.turbo-smtp.com).
), it is recommended to use 587. Username:
Sender address: noreply@YOURDOMAIN.
SMTP Username Password:
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