To enable Telligent Community to send or receive email, navigate to Administration > Site > Email Options:
This form provides all of the configuration to connect Telligent Community to your email service provider:
- Enable Email - Enable email for the community. If disabled, no email will be sent from the community.
- Enable Email Digest - Enables registered users to receive a daily and weekly group email digest of group activity.
- Notification From Email Address - Specify the email address of your community, which is a no-reply address users see when they receive email notifications from the community.
- Email Domain - Specify the site domain name that all email addresses will be used in, such as "mysite.com."
- Email Encoding - Specify the character encoding format used for email messages. The default format is utf-8 and is recommended.
- Email Subject Encoding - Specify the character encoding format used for email subjects. The default format is utf-8 and is recommended.
- SMTP Server - The SMTP server host or IP that you use to send mail for your site.
- Email Timeout - Time, in milliseconds, to wait before a timeout occurs when sending email.
- Email logo - Navigate to a file or revert to the default image.
- Use SMTP over SSL - Enable an SSL connection with your SMTP server.
- Use Windows Integrated Authentication - The current process security context is used to authenticate with the service.
- SMTP Server Login Required - Enable to require a login for the SMTP server.
- SMTP Server Loginname - If required, specify the SMTP server login name.
- SMTP Server Password - If required, specify the SMTP server password.
- SMTP Port Number - If required, specify the port number used for sending SMTP mail.
- Enable Mail Gateway - Enable or disable mail gateway for the site. Mail gateway enables the community to read incoming email as requests to add content to the site, for example, for integrating forum threads with email or for enabling blog posting by email.
- Max attachment size (in bytes) - Allows up to this size in bytes.
- Enable message header logging - When enabled, incoming email information is logged in the event log.
Click Save to apply the settings.