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Outbound email

An outbound email configuration defines how packages send email. A package sends email with sendMail, optionally generating the subject and body from a template.

Outbound email configurations are configured in the Outbound email configurations tab. A configuration consists of:

  • The transport: an SMTP server with basic authentication, a Microsoft 365 app registration (certificate or client secret) sending through Microsoft Graph, or the built-in mail server of the automator.
  • The sender details added to every message: from, reply-to, and optional cc and bcc recipients.

The default configuration​

One configuration per environment can be marked as default. sendMail uses it when no configuration name is given, so most packages never need to name a configuration.

Testing​

A configuration can override recipients for testing: every message is delivered to a single address instead of its real recipients. This is useful in development and test environments, where packages run against test data but would otherwise email real people.

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