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+## SMTP Email Setup
+
+The following instructions maybe used when SMTP email is not setup as part of the installation process. 
+
+1.  Setup an email sending service. If you already have credentials for a SMTP server you can skip this step.
+	1. [Setup Amazon Simple Email Service](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses)
+	2. From the `SMTP Settings` menu click `Create My SMTP Credentials`
+	3. Copy the `Server Name`, `Port`, `SMTP Username`, and `SMTP Password`
+	4. From the `Domains` menu setup and verify a new domain. It it also a good practice to enable `Generate DKIM Settings` for this domain.
+	5. Choose an email address like `feedback@example.com` for Mattermost to send emails from.
+	6. Test sending an email from `feedback@example.com` by clicking the `Send a Test Email` button and verify everything appears to be working correctly.
+2.  Modify the Mattermost configuration file config.json or config_docker.json with the SMTP information.
+	1. If you're running Mattermost on Amazon Beanstalk you can shell into the instance with the following commands
+	2. `ssh ec2-user@[domain for the docker instance]`
+	3. `sudo gpasswd -a ec2-user docker`
+	4. Retrieve the name of the container with `sudo docker ps`
+	5. `sudo docker exec -ti container_name /bin/bash`
+3.  Edit the config file `vi /config_docker.json` with the settings you captured from the step above. See an example below and notice `ByPassEmail` has been set to `false`
+``` bash
+"EmailSettings": { 
+	"ByPassEmail" : false, 
+	"SMTPUsername": "AKIADTOVBGERKLCBV", 
+	"SMTPPassword": "jcuS8PuvcpGhpgHhlcpT1Mx42pnqMxQY", 
+	"SMTPServer": "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:465", 
+	"UseTLS": true, 
+	"FeedbackEmail": "feedback@example.com", 
+	"FeedbackName": "Feedback", 
+	"ApplePushServer": "", 
+	"ApplePushCertPublic": "", 
+	"ApplePushCertPrivate": ""
+}
+```
+4.  Restart Mattermost
+	1. Find the process id with `ps -A` and look for the process named `platform`
+	2. Kill the process `kill pid`
+	3. The service should restart automatically. Verify the Mattermost service is running with `ps -A`
+	4. Current logged in users will not be affected, but upon logging out or session expiration users will be required to verify their email address.