Email notifications

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Configuration

Plane offers an interface to configure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and SSL for encrypted email communication.

Navigate to Email in /god-modeand you will see ↓.

• Host
  The address of your SMTP server.
• Port
  The port for outgoing emails.
• Sender email address
  The email address you wish to use as the sender of emails.
• Email security
  Toggle TLS or SSL as the email security layer for your emails. If you do not wish to use either of them, you can choose the No email security option.
• Authentication
  You can configure the username and password to authenticate the SMTP server to send emails. It’s an optional configuration, but we would advise you to provide authentication details for a secure email delivery experience.
  • Username
    Specify the username for the SMTP configuration here.
  • Password
    Specify the password for the SMTP configuration here.

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Configuration for popular email services providers

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Amazon SES

1. Sign in to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses.
2. Navigate to SMTP Settings in the sidebar.
3. Click Create My SMTP Credentials.
4. Follow prompts to create a user in the Create User for SMTP dialog box, then click Create.
5. Select Show User SMTP Credentials to view the user’s SMTP credentials.
6. Return to your Plane instance’s /god-mode and enter the obtained details.

Ensure to review email quotas for your Amazon SES server. Consider managing email recipients using groups to optimize usage.