{"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 . 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