Configure SMTP Service

Overview

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a TCP/IP protocol used in sending and receiving e-mail. DNS Made Easy’s SMTP service provides a secure relay for sending an outgoing email using SMTP Authentication.

DNS Made Easy enterprise email servers will act as a secure relay for your email messages using SMTP authentication. Many ISP’s today block outgoing port 25 as a spam mitigation precaution. This is preventing many legitimate clients from sending emails from their own domain names. SMTP service from DNS Made Easy will allow you to specify an alternate port for your going email relay through our server.

How It Works

DNS Made Easy’s SMTP Service allows you to configure an account username and password so you can authenticate to our SMTP servers, after authentication you can send up to your allotted quota in email as a user from your own domain(s) and from any email account you wish. Your email client or server will need to be configured to use our outgoing SMTP server with the authentication credentials you have created.

Prerequisites 

• A domain has been added to your DNS Made Easy account
• A TXT record has been created for the domain
• You have called DNS Made EAsy to subscribe to the SMTP service for verification
• The SMTP server has been added into the TXT record
  

Note: The stand-alone TXT record for our SMTP server would look like this: 
"v=spf1 mx include:smtp1.dnsmadeeasy.com ~all"

Configure SMTP Service

1. Select SMTP service

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Note: TXT Records are replacing Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records, which are deprecated records. Constellix still supports modifications and deletions of SPF records currently in your account, but new or additional configurations must be in TXT record format.

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2. Click the plus sign

Click the plus sign (+) to add a new SMTP configuration

3. Configuring SMTP authentication

Add the user name and password you would like to use to authenticate to the DNS Made Easy SMTP server, then click on ‘Submit’.

4. Configure your email client or server

Configure your email client or server to send going email using DNS Made Easy’s SMTP server and one of the ports supported using authentication with the user name and password you have configured.