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Overview

SMTP Provider allows you to send emails from Keep. Most of the email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Mailgun, etc. provide SMTP servers to send emails. You can use these SMTP servers to send emails from Keep.

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Authentication

This provider requires authentication.

  • smtp_server: SMTP Server Address (required: True, sensitive: False)
  • smtp_port: SMTP port (required: True, sensitive: False)
  • encryption: SMTP encryption (required: True, sensitive: False)
  • smtp_username: SMTP username (required: False, sensitive: False)
  • smtp_password: SMTP password (required: False, sensitive: True)

Certain scopes may be required to perform specific actions or queries via the provider. Below is a summary of relevant scopes and their use cases:

  • send_email: Send email using SMTP protocol (mandatory)

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In workflows

This provider can be used in workflows.

As “action” to make changes or update data, example:

actions:
    - name: Query smtp
      provider: smtp
      config: "{{ provider.my_provider_name }}"
      with:
        from_email: {value}  
        from_name: {value}  
        to_email: {value}  
        subject: {value}  
        body: {value}

Check the following workflow example:

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Connecting with SMTP Provider

  1. Obtain the SMTP credentials from your email service provider. Example: Gmail, Yahoo, Mailgun, etc.
  2. Add SMTP Provider in Keep with the obtained credentials.
  3. Connect the SMTP Provider with Keep.