How to set your mail server through Mailgun, SMTP
By default, the emails at ExpoFP are sent through noreply@expofp.com. See how to send emails using ExpoFP here.
If you’d like to send emails from your own email address, it’s necessary to set up your own custom mail server.
How to configure a custom mail server
Go to your mail settings page.
Choose any mail server.
Set the parameters for Mailgun or SMTP.
Mailgun
If you have a mailgun account already, then you need to enter the following:
- API-key: your mailgun domain API key
- Your name: it will be shown as a sender
- Mail name: it will be in the email address before @ symbol
- Your mailgun domain name: after @ usually ends with mailgun.com
If you don’t have a mailgun account:
- Sign up here
- Check your inbox for a "Please verify your Mailgun account" email and click the link
- With your domain set up, you can send more emails, and the emails you send will come from you. Set that up over here. Add your domain name, it can be in ***.***.com format or ***.com it does not make any difference.
Go to Domains page and pick your new domain from the list.
You will get on “Overview” page. Click on “Select” button inside API label and copy your domain API key.
Now fill all fields and send a test message by clicking "TEST" button. In popup form enter email address to whom you want to send test message.
If the test message was sent successfully you will see green message, everything is set correctly.
Click "SAVE CHANGES" button and your mail server is ready!
SMTP, GMAIL (as an example)
- SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com
- SMTP Port: 587
- SMTP username: your Gmail username
- SMTP password: your Gmail generated password
- From name: sender's name (may be empty)
- From e-mail: your Gmail address
How to generate a Gmail password
Generate an app password by visiting this page while logging into your Google account.
Turn on 2-Step Verification.
Generate an app password, type in search bar “password” and pick “App passwords” item from the list:
Select the app — Other (Custom name).
Type in “expofp.com”
Now you have the password for the expofp.com SMTP mail server.
Then, send a test message.
If the test message is sent successfully, everything is set correctly.
Note that all your events will share the same email address when sending emails (i.e., if you have two expos, both of them will send emails via the same address you set).
All the emails sent from now on will be sent via the custom email address (this includes the reservation confirmation, invoice email, invoice payment confirmation, and the auto-login requested to edit exhibitor emails).