How do I set up email sending and send a test email?

You will have set up the account the site sends email from, and confirmed it works.

Before you start

You need permission to manage Inbox credentials, and the details from your email provider: SMTP host, port and login, or a Resend API key.

Steps

1. Open Site Settings and choose Email.
2. In Mail server, add a configuration.
3. Choose SMTP or Resend.
4. Fill in the From address (required) and the From name.
5. For SMTP, enter the host, port, TLS choice, username and password. For Resend, enter the API key.
6. Set a purpose if this configuration is for one kind of mail, and mark it default if it should be used when no purpose matches.
7. Save, then press Test Send and enter an address you can read.

What you will see

The test email arrives from the From address you set.

If something goes wrong

• If the test fails, the provider's own error text is shown.
• Test Send is limited to 5 a minute per user.
• The port does not change when you tick TLS; match them yourself (465 and 587 behave differently).
• A blank password or key keeps the stored one when you edit.
• Only one configuration may have a given purpose, and the last default cannot be deleted.