Simple Mail Transfer Protocol referred to as SMTP is a standard for electronic mail transmission. For Emails to be sent to destined users, setting up SMTP Server is vital.
VIDIZMO sets up a default SMTP server when it is installed. However, VIDIZMO offers the flexibility of configuring your own SMTP Server in your Portal.
To learn more about SMTP, see Understanding Email & SMTP.
SMTP Settings can be configured from Email & SMTP in Control Panel Settings.
Note: VIDIZMO also allows you to configure default Email date and date-time formats. To learn more about how to do it, see: How to Update Date and Time Settings using Application Configuration Keys in VIDIZMO.
Steps to Configure SMTP Settings via Control Panel
I. From the Portal's Homepage
1. Click on the navigation menu on the top left of your screen.
2. Expand Admin tab.
3. Click on Control Panel.
II. From Control Panel:
1. Expand Email & SMTP tab.
2. Select SMTP.
3. Click Configure SMTP Settings. Now you will be able to add your own settings.
III. From the SMTP Settings screen:
1. Enter the corporate SMTP Server that you have configured for your organization.
2. Provide the Port used in your corporate SMTP server. In the example below, the port 587 is used. Some commonly used ports are:>SMTP - port 25 or 2525 or 587
Secure SMTP (SSL / TLS) - port 465 or 25 or 587, 2526 (Elastic Email). You can Enable SSL via checkbox if your mail server is configured to use SSL.
3. Enter the From Display Name with which, the sender will be recognized as.
4. Enter the Sender's Email Address of the account that will be used to relay email messages.
5. & 6. Enter the Password for your account.
6. Re-enter it in Confirm Password.
7. Enter the From email address from which to send the email.
8. Enter the email address of any additional person you want to share the information with in CC.
9. Enter the email address of any additional person you want to send the Blind copy of the email in BCC.
10. Enter the email that the receiver can send back a reply to in Reply To.
11. Choose the level of Priority of emails in terms of importance and urgency of delivery. You can check Compose Messages in HTML format to enable editing/composing of email templates in HTML.
12. Click on Add SMTP Settings to save changes.
A notification will appear briefly stating: SMTP Settings Added Successfully.
