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## SMTP Email Setup
In some product evaluation setups email is intentionally bypassed using a `ByPassEmail=true` option. This option allows account creation and system operation without having to set up an email service (email verification is bypassed).
To enable email, turn this option off by setting `ByPassEmail=false` and configuring an SMTP email service as follows:
1. **Set up an SMTP 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.**
1. 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.
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