SMTP Provider

SMTP Provider allows your to deliver notifications via email channel using any SMTP server of your choice.

Unique Identifier

Each provider is identified by a unique identifier. Unique identifier of SMTP provider is smtp_email

Enabling SMTP Provider

To enable SMTP provider, login to your Engagespot dashboard, goto Channels -> Email and enable SMTP Provider.

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SMTP email provider uses email attribute in your user's profile as the primary address to deliver the notifications. So make sure your user's profile has the email attribute set.

SMTP Provider Configurations.

SMTP Provider requires the following configurations.

We make use of the powerful nodemailer to send your notifications when you choose SMTP provider. That means you can use all the features of nodemailer through our API.

Configuration	Description	Required	Example
SMTP_HOST	Hostname of SMTP server without any protocol prefix.	Yes	smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT	SMTP port of the server	Yes	25
SMTP_USERNAME	Username of your SMTP Server	Yes	me@gmail.com
SMTP_PASSWORD	Password of your SMTP Server	Yes	password123@
SECURE	Whether SMTP server needs secure authentication	No	false
REQUIRE_TLS	Whether SMTP Server requires TLS Authentication	No	true
FROM_NAME	Default from name	No	Anand
FROM_EMAIL	Default from email	No	me@example.com

Overriding Configurations

SMTP provider allows you to override all the above configurations (and you can specify several more options) while sending a notification through Engagespot API, using the https://api.engagespot.co/v3/notifications endpoint.

To override the configurations, you must supply them via override parameter of the above API. As mentioned above, you can use any supported parameter for nodemailer in the override parameter!

For example,

{
  "notification": {
    "title": "Anand commented on your photo",
    "message": "Hey Steve, you're looking cool 😎. Who took this photo?",
    "url": "https://your-app.com/photos/17293739",
    "category": "comment"
  },
  "recipients": ["steve@example.com"],
  "override": {
    "smtp_email": {
      "_config": {
        "SMTP_HOST": "smtp.gmail.com",
        "SMTP_PORT": 25,
        "SMTP_USERNAME": "me@gmail.com",
        "SMTP_PASSWORD": "password23@",
        "SECURE": true,
        "REQUIRE_TLS": true
      },
      "FROM_NAME": "Anand",
      "FROM_EMAIL": "anand@example.com",
      "subject": "Custom email subject",
      "text": "Email body plaintext",
      "html": "Email body with <h1>HTML</h1> support",
      "headers": {
        "key": "value"
      },
      "attachments": {}
    }
  }
}