{"id":7006,"date":"2019-05-06T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.simplecert.net\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:13:54","slug":"can-i-use-my-own-email-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/can-i-use-my-own-email-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I use my own email server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Under your account settings (top right side of your account, select your account name), select \u201cSMTP Settings\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SMTP-Settings.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7963\" src=\"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SMTP-Settings-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SMTP-Settings-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SMTP-Settings.png 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;SMTP Settings&#8221; page, select &#8220;Use other SMTP Server to Send Emails&#8221;.\u00a0 If you have a Microsoft or Google account that you wish to use, you can automatically configure them via secure sign in, or you can manually configure another email server by entering the settings as indicated:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Configure-SMTP.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7964\" src=\"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Configure-SMTP-300x161.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Configure-SMTP-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Configure-SMTP-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Configure-SMTP-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Configure-SMTP.png 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note if you choose to use another email server to send your certificates out, it is your responsibility to maintain the IP health of that server to ensure proper delivery of your notification emails.\u00a0 Also remember that if you use an external email server, sending and deliverability reports will no longer be available within SimpleCert.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Under your account settings (top right side of your account, select your account name), select \u201cSMTP Settings\u201d: In the &#8220;SMTP Settings&#8221; page, select &#8220;Use other SMTP Server to Send Emails&#8221;.\u00a0 If you have a Microsoft or Google account that you wish to use, you can automatically configure them via secure sign in, or you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[441,358,439,438,440],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-send-module","tag-email-server","tag-sender-email","tag-smtp","tag-smtp-server","tag-smtp-settings","post_format-post-format-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can I use my own email server? - SimpleCert\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/simplecert.net\/help\/can-i-use-my-own-email-server\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can I use my own email server? - SimpleCert\u00ae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes. 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