From 6578e8bbbb75e5cb94f495854fcf136201e97a61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: FreeScout <40499291+freescout-helpdesk@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 17:26:42 +0545 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Sending Emails (markdown) --- Sending-Emails.md | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Sending-Emails.md b/Sending-Emails.md index aece1bd..3849f4d 100644 --- a/Sending-Emails.md +++ b/Sending-Emails.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 1. [FreeScout Email Sending Methods](#freescout-email-sending-methods) -1. [Email Delivery Services](#email-delivery-services) -1. [Email Service Providers (ESP)](#email-service-providers-esp) +1. [Email Delivery Services](#email-delivery-services-overview) +1. [Email Service Providers (ESP)](#email-service-providers-esp-overview) ## Intro @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are 3 main approaches for sending emails: * `Sendmail` — emails are sent from your server. * `SMTP` — emails are sent via SMTP by email service provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) or by email delivery service (Mailgun, SendGrid, etc). -## Email Delivery Services +## Email Delivery Services Overview You are free to use any of the existing email delivery services to send emails from FreeScout: * [Elastic Email](https://elasticemail.com/account#/create-account?r=bc0975e9-3d6b-462f-be7c-629e7672a4a8) — 150,000 free emails per month (5,000 per day), requires to specify your company address in each outgoing email. * [Amazon SES](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/) — If your are using their [EC2 server](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) you get free 62,000 emails sent per month, and $0.10 per 1,000 emails sent thereafter. @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ SMTP Port: 465 ([How to open access to external hosts on Amazon instance](https: Encryption: SSL -## Email Service Providers (ESP) +## Email Service Providers (ESP) Overview #### Send Rate Limits for Email Service Providers * **[G Suite](https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en_sg/pricing.html)** (paid, [free for nonprofits](https://www.google.com/nonprofits/offerings/apps-for-nonprofits/)): 3000 unique recipients per day (10 000 with relay configured). @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Encryption: SSL ## SMTP Configuration -#### Gmail (or G Suite) +#### Gmail * SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com * Port: 465 * Username: example@gmail.com @@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ Encryption: SSL Enable less secure apps [here](https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps?pli=1). More info [here](https://github.com/freescout-helpdesk/freescout/wiki/Fetching-Emails#fetching-from-gmail-g-suite) +#### G Suite +* SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com +* Port: 465 +* Username: example@gmail.com +* Encryption: SSL + +Enable 2-Step Verification, create an application specific password and use it in FreeScout. + #### Yandex.Connect Mail * SMTP Server: smtp.yandex.com * Port: 465