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Email communication
Either during your set-up or sometime later, you will want to set SMTP settings to let your users get emails to reset passwords, onboard themselves right, and get notifications for changes, and receive exports of your data.
Configuration
Plane offers an interface to configure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and SSL for encrypted email communication.
Navigate to Email
in /god-mode
and you will see ↓.
- Host
The address of your SMTP server - Port
The port for outgoing emails - Username
Your username for SMTP authentication - Password
Your password for SMTP authentication - From address
The email address you wish to use as the sender of emails. - TLS
Toggle TLS on or off depending on your SMTP server’s support for TLS
Configuration for popular email services providers
Gmail on Google Workspace
- Enter
smtp.gmail.com
in the SMTP host field. - Specify
465
for the SMTP port. - Enter your Google Workspace username, e.g.,
hello@yourdomain.com
, in the SMTP username field. - Enter your Google Workspace password in the SMTP password field.
- Enter the email address you wish to use as the sender of system notifications in the From Address field.
Amazon SES
- Sign in to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses.
- Navigate to SMTP Settings in the sidebar.
- Click Create My SMTP Credentials.
- Follow prompts to create a user in the Create User for SMTP dialog box, then click Create.
- Select Show User SMTP Credentials to view the user’s SMTP credentials.
- Return to your Plane instance’s
/god-mode
and enter the obtained details.
Ensure to review email quotas for your Amazon SES server. Consider managing email recipients using groups to optimize usage.