SMTP Settings

In many cases, you might want to send emails from your Umbraco Cloud project. It could be for inviting users to the Backoffice or as part of an Umbraco Forms Workflow. To do so, you will need to have a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server and configure this in your appsettings.json file.

SMTP server is not included with your Umbraco Cloud project. You will need to have your SMTP server set up elsewhere and then you need to configure this service with your Umbraco Cloud project.

Why Configure SMTP?

There are a handful of reasons why configuring an SMTP service on your Umbraco Cloud project could come in handy or might even be necessary.

Umbraco Forms

When you are working with Umbraco Forms, you have the option to set up email workflows. This enables you to create forms that send out emails. It could be a contact form where your customers can send emails directly to you.

To set up an email workflow to send out emails, you will need to configure the SMTP service. In some cases, you might also experience that you need to configure a SenderEmail for notifications.

Configure SenderEmail in the appsettings.json file under Umbraco:CMS:Global:Smtp. For more details, see the Send Email section in the Workflow Types article.

 "Umbraco": {
    "CMS": {
        "Global": {
            "Smtp": {
                "From":  "person@umbraco.dk"
            }
        }
    }
},

Backoffice Users

There are two scenarios for Backoffice users where configuring an SMTP service is needed:

1. When you want to add a user to your project directly from the Backoffice. Doing this involves sending out an email to the new user. For this scenario, we've set up a fallback, which means that even though you haven't yet configured an SMTP service, an email will still be sent to the new user. Keep in mind that the fallback is only for this particular purpose; inviting users to join your project.

2. To set up the SMTP service for your Umbraco Cloud project if one of your Backoffice users has forgotten their password. To reset their password, they have to request a password reset which will be sent to them by mail. This will only work once you've configured an SMTP service.

You can reset your Umbraco ID password from the Umbraco Cloud login page. Find more details about Umbraco ID in the 'Users on Cloud' article.

Configure SMTP Settings

• Sparkpost - quick to set up and developer-friendly.

• SendGrid - quick to set up.

• MailGun - mainly for developers, as it is a bit more on the technical side.

• Rapidmail - EU-based and GDPR compliant.

1. Set up the SMTP server.

2. Configure the service:

"Umbraco": {
    "CMS": {
        "Global": {
            "Smtp": {
                "From": "person@umbraco.dk",
                "Host": "127.0.0.0",
                "Port": 587,
                "SecureSocketOptions": "StartTls",
                "Username": "person@umbraco.dk",
                "Password":  "password123/<API Key generated in your SMTP server account>"      
            }
         }
    }
},

<system.net>
    <mailSettings>
    <smtp from="noreply@example.com">
        <network host="127.0.0.1" userName="username" password="password" />
    </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
</system.net>

Once you've configured these settings for your SMTP service, you can send emails from your Umbraco Cloud project. For more information on SMTP configuration, see the Global Settings article.