{"id":3016,"date":"2021-12-23T01:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2021-12-23T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T11:46:22","slug":"how-to-configure-smtp-settings-in-opencart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/how-to-configure-smtp-settings-in-opencart\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure SMTP settings in OpenCart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To send emails from the dashboard, by default OpenCart uses PHP mail() function . This is often an excellent in built feature that helps you to send emails to your clients\/porspects regarding your new products, offers, promotions etc. To enhance the e-mail delivery, you should take into account fixing SMTP for all the outgoing emails. SMTP would greatly improve the e-mail delivery and minimize bounce rate of your necessary emails.<\/p>\n<p>Login to the OpenCart admin dashboard, to configure SMTP settings and follow the steps as given below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> From the main menu Go to <strong>Settings<\/strong> section .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> After that click <strong>Edit<\/strong> button and navigate to the Mail tab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Then change the <strong>Mail Protocol<\/strong> From Mail to SMTP.<\/p>\n<p>Fill the following details:<\/p>\n<p>SMTP Host:<br \/>\nSMTP Username:<br \/>\nSMTP Password:<br \/>\nSMTP Port:<br \/>\nSMTP Timeout:<\/p>\n<p>Save the mail settings and test the outgoing emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To send emails from the dashboard, by default OpenCart uses PHP mail() function . This is often an excellent in built feature that helps you to send emails to your clients\/porspects regarding your new products, offers, promotions etc. To enhance the e-mail delivery, you should take into account fixing SMTP for all the outgoing emails. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}