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Posted by John Shawn
John Shawn
Courses Plus Student 32 Points

Please dont ignore - configuring swift mailer

I have a domain hosted on bluehost and an account on Vultr. (But have not setup any server, dont know how to go about that yet). My website is still in development and I want to implement a mailing system so once a user register's, an activation mail is been sent.

To configure swift mailer it ask for a smtp_server, I have reach out to bluehost, it turns out I must have a host account with them. Where do I get this smtp_server from? (cant I just use my Gmail?)

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You're in luck. Google offers a free SMTP server that you can use, but obviously, you need to know how to configure everything to make it work with their server.

Might I suggest this article on how to set up SMTP through Google?

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

John Shawn
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John Shawn
Courses Plus Student 32 Points
John Shawn
John Shawn
Courses Plus Student 32 Points

Thanks @ jenifer. I just tried using gmail as you have said but no luck it says... Expected response code 220 but got code "", with message "". can you help me fix this?