Maintain Email Accounts
To access tab: System -> Maintain email accounts
Click here for information on how to use a data entry window.
Field | Description |
Email Account Id | Name of the Account you are using. Click here for information on how to use the record Id field. |
Description | Description of that Account. |
Host Address | Hosting Site Address (SMTP address). |
Port | Port that the email account uses. |
User name | Email Account login Username. |
Password | Email Account Password. |
SSL required | Check if Email account requires SSL. |
Sender Email Address | Email address that outgoing emails should use, usually the same as User name. |
Sender name | Name to display as sender. |
Send Test | On the Toolbar there is a Send Test button which will allow you to send a test email from Ditat, this will prompt you for an email address to send the test message to. |
SMTP Info for common email accounts
Email account | Host address | Port | Requires SSL |
GMAIL | 587 | YES | |
Yahoo | 465, 587, or 997 | YES | |
Office 365 | 587 | YES | |
AOL | 25 | NO | |
Dreamhost | 25 | YES | |
Hotmail | 587 | YES | |
Outlook through GoDaddy | 25 | NO | |
ZOHO | 587 | YES |
GMAIL Setup
For GMAIL accounts, 2 Step Verification with an App Password will need to be set up.
2-Step Verification you will need to add Ditat to your 2-Step verification in Google. To turn on, go to Google Account settings/Security/ Sign in to Google/ 2-Step Verification access needs to be set to on:
Click on the Arrow next to 2-Step Verification.
Once 2-Step Verification is set up and on, you will need to create a password for Ditat.
Name the app 'Ditat.'
The generated password will be used in the password field on your Ditat TMS set up.
For Business GMAIL accounts
Manage access to less secure apps
You can allow users to turn on or off access to less secure apps or disable their ability to allow less secure apps.
Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an administrator account, not your current account.
From the Admin console Home page, go to Security → Less secure apps
To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
Select the setting for less secure apps:
Disable access to less secure apps (Recommended)
Users can’t turn on access to less secure apps.
When you disable access to less secure apps while a less secure app has an open connection with a user account, the app will time out when it tries to refresh the connection. Timeout periods vary per app.Allow users to manage their access to less secure apps
Users can turn on or turn off access to less secure apps.
Click Save.
Then you can do the main “allow less secure apps” step for any accounts you want to send emails from.
Yahoo Setup
For Yahoo 'net_io_connectionclosed' error issues; Ditat will need to have a temporary 3rd party app password created.
Error Sending Email:
Error sending email: Transaction failed. The server response was: 6.6.0 Error sending message for delivery..
- This error is linked to emails flagging as spam by Yahoo. Please up retry count and emails will send upon retry.
Office 365 Setup
For Office 365 authentication issues.
Disabling Multi-Factor Authentication on Office 365
GoDaddy Setup
If a GoDaddy email account is giving email sending limit errors it may be due to batch size. GoDaddy recognizes large batches of emails as spam. It is recommended to keep batches to 25-30 records or less.