Using Google Mail as SMTP Sender in Outgrow

At Outgrow we allow our users to send emails to their customers and prospects using their own SMTP server. This document will help you understand how to use a free Google mail account as an SMTP Sender in Outgrow.

How to configure Google Mail as SMTP Sender in Outgrow

Google has recently made some changes to its authentication policies and here are the steps that you need to follow in order to configure SMTP in Outgrow using Gmail:

A. Login to your Google account, and navigate to the Security tab in your Google dashboard.

B. Under the Security tab, go to the App Passwords section. In this section, you will be creating the password that will be required to authenticate your google account as an SMTP mailer.

C. Now in the App Passwords section, choose Mail as the option from the Select App dropdown.

D. In the Select Device dropdown, choose Other (Custom Name) as the option.

E. In the Custom Name field specify the name as Outgrow. Then click on Generate to generate the app password.

F. Once the app password will be generated, copy the password and use it in the password field that shows up while configuring SMTP in Outgrow.

G. Login to your Outgrow account by clicking here.

H. Once you have logged into your Outgrow account, click on the account name icon at the top and click on Billings & Settings.

I. Under Settings navigate to the Email Settings tab and then navigate to the Email Gateway sub-tab.

J. Now toggle on the setting for Outgrow allows you to send notification emails to the users using your own server and not Outgrow's server. Add in the details for your SMTP server in Outgrow.

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IMPORTANT NOTE

Specify your Gmail Id as the Username and in the Password field add the App Password that you copied from your Google account.

NOTE: For testing purposes please make sure that in the SMTP Configuration section, the Send and Receive email addresses are different. These email addresses will be used to test whether emails are being triggered properly or not.

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