How can I send outgoing emails from Sharepoint in CloudShare?

Fahad Sidheekh

• April 20, 2012 18:38

Hi, 

How can I send out emails from Sharepoint in CloudShare?  

Do you have some SMTP server details that I can use or any email id that can be used for this purpose?

Thanks

Fahad.

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  Peter Franks

  • April 20, 2012 18:39

  Hi Fahad, 

  When setting up outgoing emails from SharePoint you would handle this in much the same way as you would with any standard installation of CloudShare. This post from Microsoft's Technet should be a helpful guide.

  You can configure an SMTP server in your CloudShare environment (IIS includes an SMTP server), or you can use any cloud email provider such as Gmail assuming you have an account. Just ensure you enable SMTP authentication and do not have an open relay.

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  Bruce Altner

  • June 24, 2012 13:12

  Scott:

  Does this work for trial accounts? I've followed all the steps in the TechNet article to get the SMTP server running (in IIS) but don't know what to use for the SMTP server name in Central Admin.  I tried mail.sp2010.spdom.loc and a few others but none seem to work.  What is a valid SMTP server name for my virtual machine?

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  Fahad Sidheekh

  • June 24, 2012 16:07

  Hi Bruce,

  You can go through this article.

  This helps you in setting up the mail set up

  http://pitstopsharepoint.blogspot.com/2012/04/configuring-outgoing-email-in.html

  Thanks

  Fahad.

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  Bruce Altner

  • June 24, 2012 16:54

  Fahad:

  Thanks for the reply, but it is still not sending out alerts or email from workflows. I had tried the gmail/POP thing already, without success.  The article that I found suggested two things not in your writeup:

  1.  On the SMTP virtual server propertied/delivery panel click Outbound connections button and change the port to 587

  1. On the SMTP virtual server propertied/delivery panel click Advanced button and set the smarthost to my gmail account.

  Since you did not mention these steps I skipped them but also got the same result.

  One point:  For the smtp server name you say to use the "computer" name.  I am using the fully-qualified name, e.g., sp2010.spdom.loc. 

  Also, gmail POP is enabled but so is IMAP.  I don't think this is an issue but I could be wrong.

   

  Thanks,

  Bruce

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  Bruce Altner

  • June 24, 2012 23:45

  Looks like I got it to work using the extra two settings. Thanks for the assist!

  Bruce

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  NewUser Web

  • December 13, 2012 03:20

  I have the SMTP server name as follows: SP2010APP.AD2008R2.loc

   

  Followed instruction as per the link >>> https://support.cloudshare.com/entries/21310066-how-can-i-send-outg...

  But when I test trying to send an outbound email, it doesn't send.

   

  I tested using the following powershell script as well as setting up an AD user with external email address and sending a welcome message.

  $site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SpSite(" http://sp2010app:3695")
  
  $web = $site.OpenWeb("")
  
  $sent = [Microsoft.Sharepoint.Utilities.SpUtility]::SendEmail($web,0,0," Validuser@Gmail.com", "Test mail subject","test mail body")
  
  $sent

   

  I get a result as "False" and the email was not sent/received. Somebody please help.

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  Aladdin Anvar

  • December 27, 2013 18:29

  Scott,

  In the link you have provided from Microsoft  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263462.aspx#section3 and in

  To configure the SMTP service

   section (number 7) is written:

  7. In the Authentication dialog box, verify that Anonymous access is selected.

  Should we follow the above? I cannot send email unless I do the above.

   

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  Tzvika Zitzman

  • December 27, 2013 20:34

  @Aladdin,

  This is quite a poor security design by Microsoft. You can enable anonymous access as long as your SMTP server is configured only to relay emails from the local machine (127.0.0.1)

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