Setup EMails

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Menu path: Home -> Setup -> EMails

The EMails setup screen allows you to setup Dolibarr to send EMails.

Modify the following option:

Disable globally all emails sendings (test mode or demo)

Set this to No. If you set to yes (for a demo system for example), no more mail will be sent.

Method to send emails

The default method is PHP mail function. This means that Dolibarr use your PHP to send emails. The choice Simplemail class do the same thing. If your email sending server needs authentication, you must choose SMTP/SMTP-AUTH, validate, this will make the field login or password appears on this page.

Hostname or ip address of email sending server

Name or IP address of the server that send mail. It is usually an name like smtp.xxx.zzz provided by your Internet Service Provider. For example: smtp.aol.com, smtp.free.fr, smtp.myprovider.com

Port of email sending server

If the email sending server use the standard port (25), you can let the field empty.

SMTP Authentification ID

Visible if you have choose SMTP-AUTH as sending method. Put here your login.

SMTP Authentification Password

Visible if you have choose SMTP-AUTH as sending method. Put here your password.

Utilisation du TLS

Some emails servers require SSL encrypted communication (For example the SMTP server of Google smtp.google.com). It's SMTPS. Actually none of sending methods supports this protocol.

EMail used as sender for automatic emails

EMail that will be used by Dolibarr as emails sender if sender is not explicitly defined.