After your application has been approved and your account has been set up, you can follow the steps below to configure your CiviSMTP Account.
Once your account was activated we sent you an email that contains a domain name that you will use for your mailings.
It looks something like:
yourorgname.civismtp.com OR yourorgname.uas.coop
If you would like to use your own domain instead of the domain we gave you then follow these steps to set it up.
Please note that whether you use our domain or your own it may take up to 72 hrs for the domain's MX records to fully propagate through DNS before you can send mailings.
This is the user with which our system communicates about bounces, subscribes, unsubscribes, replies, etc.
You can give it any username and password, for example soap_user, soap_user_password.
In Drupal this user has to have the following permissions for the CiviCRM module:
• access CiviCRM
• edit all contacts
• edit groups
In WordPress you can set the user Role to "None".
In Joomla under 'Assigned User Groups' select 'Registered User'.
NOTE: Please ensure that this CMS user is linked to a CiviCRM contact.
NOTE: In Joomla 1.7.x/2.5.x to ensure that your SOAP CMS user is linked to a CiviCRM contact please follow these steps:
1. create a CiviCRM contact
2. create a Joomla user with same name and email
3. logout and login as that newly created user
4. go to CiviCRM and view the contact record, you should see a linked user record.
Go to “Administer CiviCRM” -> Configure -> “Domain Information”
(In CCRM 4.1+ go to “Administer CiviCRM” -> “Communications” -> “Organization Address and Contact Info” instead)
Configure the following:
• Domain Name - The name of the organization or entity which owns this CiviCRM site or domain.. this is used internally by CiviCRM to identify separate domains within a single installation
• Description - Optional description of this domain
• FROM Name and Email - The FROM Name and Email Address are used when automated emails are sent from this domain (e.g. subscribe and unsubscribe confirmations...). This Name and Email Address are also used as the default 'sender' values when you create a new CiviMail Mailing.
• In CCRM versions prior to 2.2 Configure Email Domain - This is the same domain as in Step 1, for example yourorgname.civismtp.com (or your custom domain if you set it up)
Save the Domain Information settings and continue to Step 2.3
• In CiviCRM 2.2+
1. Save the Domain Information settings
2. Go to "Administer CiviCRM" -> CiviMail -> Mail Accounts
3. Edit the default account and set ONLY the following values only:
• Name - whatever name you wish to give to this account, you can leave it as default.
• Email Domain - The domain from Step 1, for example yourorgname.civismtp.com (or your custom domain if you set it up)
• Protocol - choose any value
• If you see a setting for Default Option? - yes - select the checkbox and click "Save"
• If you see a setting for "Used For?" then set it to "Bounce Processing"
Make sure no other fields are set.
In CCRM 2 and earlier go to Administer CiviCRM -> Global Settings -> Outbound Email (SMTP)
In CCRM 2.1+ go to Administer CiviCRM -> Global Settings -> Outbound Email (SMTP/SendMail)
In CCRM 4.1+ go to Administer CiviCRM -> System Settings -> Outbound Email
Configure the following settings:
• In CiviCRM 2.1+ select "SMTP" in the "Select Mailer" options
• SMTP Server - civismtp.uas.coop
• SMTP Port - use 20095
• Authentication? - choose yes
• SMTP username - pick any unique username
• SMTP password - pick any unique password
NOTE: if you do not see "SMTP Password" field on the Outbound Email (SMTP) Settings page then you have to set this value in the civicrm.settings.php file. If you do see the "SMTP Password" on the Outbound Email (SMTP) Settings page still check the civicrm.settings.php file and if the password setting is there then set it.
NOTE: Do not send a test mailing at this step as the test will fail!
Fill out your CiviSMTP Account settings here if you have a current CiviSMTP account:
Each field in the form is described below:
The name that you provide in this field will be used only for display in the "Choose the account that you would like to modify:" drop-down on this form and is useful only if you have multiple sub-accounts under one CiviSMTP login.
The CiviCRM Soap script comes with CiviCRM installation and can be accessed via the web after you have successfully installed and activated CiviCRM and CiviMail. This is the URL that we will be contacting about bounces, unsubscribes, replies, and etc.
Typically, the URL is of the following form but it can be different depending on your installation and version:
Drupal - http://<your_site_installation_root>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/soap.php
Joomla - http://<your_site_installation_root>/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/soap.php
WordPress - http://<your_site_installation_root>/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/extern/soap.php
IMPORTANT: Make sure you can access this URL and get a 200 HTTP response as this is how we tell your CiviMail about the bounces, unsubscribes, replies, and etc.
Check the “Test Settings” option and hit Save.
If there are any issues with the CiviSMTP Settings you just entered you will get an error with details on which field is invalid. If you get an error recheck that setting and retest.
If you receive an error message SMTP Account Settings save operation failed, please choose a different SMTP Username in Step 2.3
Go back to the Outbound Email Settings page from Step 2.3 and click on “Save & Send Test Email”
You should receive a test email to your default CiviCRM email.
• Create a test group in CiviCRM and add some test contacts to it. Make sure you can access these test email accounts to ensure that your mailing was delivered.It is a good idea to also create a “bad” contact with nonexistent email address and add it to this group to test bounces.
• Create a new mailing in CiviMail and select the test group you just created as recipient group.
• On Step 2 of the mailing setup under “Responding” check the options for “Track Replies?” and “Forward Replies”
• Go through the rest of the Mailing setup and set it to send immediately. You can send a test mailing on Step 4 if you wish.
• Send the mailing by either setting up a Scheduled Job or loading the “civimail queue” url:
In Drupal something like:
In Joomla something like:
In WordPress something like:
Make sure your mailing is now marked as Completed on CiviMail “Scheduled and Sent Mailings” page
• Go to the “Scheduled and Sent Mailings” in CiviMail and click on the “Report” link next to your mailing. Check that the number of successful deliveries and bounces makes sense.
• Access your test email accounts and make sure you received the test mailing.
• From one of the test email accounts make sure you can reply and unsubscribe by email. Go back to the CiviMail report for your mailing and make sure the reply and unsubscribe was tracked properly.