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Is it possible to use gmail as the smtp server for sending e-mail from ExpressionEngine?

With Google's move toward stricter security measures regarding how third-parties connect with their services, there's now another step required to set up ExpressionEngine to send email through Gmail. ...
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Postmaster - Switching from Mandrill to SendGrid

Benek, i was in the same situation.. What i did was a bit simple (not sure if it's the best way or solution) I simply hacked the Sendgrid.php located in /third_party/postmaster/services/Sendgrid.php ...
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EE3 Email for member account activation: how to modify

I am developer of Smart members PRO. There is maximum 2 emails trigger when new member registers with EE. 1) User – Account activation instructions 2) User – Account validation notification ...
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Contact Form - Not receiving messages

The answer to this question turns out to be a lot simpler than once though. Looks like the main issue was that I didn't have two hidden required fields included: <input type="hidden" name="...
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Freeform 4.2.5 bcc notifications not sending

It is common for transactional email services to not support BCCs. Generally these services send to each address in the to field separately anyway, so CCing and BCCing aren't often necessary anyway. ...
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What is a valid sender email?

jCogs is correct. your Email input name="" attribute needs to be "from". So: <label for="email"></label><br /> <input type="text" id="...
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What is a valid sender email?

You can test your email settings from within the EE6 Control Panel. Go to Tools/Utilities/Send Email and you get a form that allows you to send an email from the EE installation to an arbitrary email ...
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Attachment not sending with outgoing email when using System Utilities>Communicate

This issue is caused by the HTML form which is displayed not having enctype="multipart/form-data" set in the <form> tag. This causes $_FILES to be NULL. I have edited lines 40 and 90 within ee/...
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Anyone with PHP skills interested in updating an add-on for EE 5?

The update is waiting for you. You can take it in my fork or approved push request which I did for your repo. p.s. I will do some extra updates this evening because I can see that some unsafe method ...
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Freeform not pulling some answers into notifications

For #1, the issue is that you need to specify [] on the checkbox field names to accept more than one: <input type="checkbox" name="interested_in[]" value="OTR Driver/Regional Driver" /> For #2,...
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How to send HTML email (in template) from extension?

Yes Brianne, you can pull the body of the template in your extension. To achieve this you need to create separate library for parsing the template into your extension. And by loading that library you ...
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One email form, different recipeints

I'm not exactly sure how the above answer would have worked, I'm really not sure I understood it. :/ However, I was able to accomplish what I wanted pretty easily with Solspace's Freeform. Also I ...
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One email form, different recipeints

If you look at the Template Parsing order, you will see that segment variables are parsed before Preload Replace Variables. You can take advantage of that. {if segment_2 == "foo"} {...
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Freeform Saves Email but Doesn't send

We discussed this over a support ticket, and the issue was that recipient_template="send-reel" was being used instead of user_notification_template="send-reel", and that the Outgoing Email EE setting ...
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email notification when someone fills out form and downloads content from my site

Use the Email from Template add-on and include either on the page offering the download button, on a confirmation page after clicking button, or trigger via an ajax call on clicking the download ...
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How can I send an automated email to pending members after they complete the registration form?

There's a free add-on that does just that: https://devot-ee.com/add-ons/registration-emails
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Emails not sending - where are email configuration details saved?

I can't speak for your Mandril setup, but make sure your server is set up correctly first. I'm assuming some Linux flavor. In an SSH terminal, run this command: echo "Test email content" | mail -s "...
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Trigger the member self activation email from custom add-on with member registration

The email are being sent with help of Email library. In the code you posted, there is no reference for it, therefore no emails go out. Here is sample code for sending member activation email from one ...
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Why can I only send plain text e-mails with the communicate tool?

This could be a spf issue. I'm currently trying to problem solve the same issue with expressionengine 2.9.3 - html emails are coming through with a blank message, but plain text emails do contain the ...
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