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How to enable SMTP for Elastic Metal servers

By default, the SMTP ports (25, 465, 587) for outgoing emails on your Elastic Metal server are closed and cannot be reached from our infrastructure.

If you want to send emails from your server, you can enable SMTP for each Availability Zone from the console.

Before you start

To complete the actions presented below, you must have:

Tip

This guide explains how to enable SMTP on Elastic Metal servers. If you need to enable SMTP on other resources, refer to our documentation on how to send emails from your Instance and how to enable SMTP on Public Gateways.

  1. Click Elastic Metal in the Bare Metal section on the side menu of the Scaleway console.

  2. Click the General Settings tab. The SMTP configuration displays.

    Important

    You must verify your identity before you can enable the SMTP ports.

  3. Toggle the switch to ON beside each Availability Zone for which you want to enable SMTP.

    Enable SMTP in Scaleway console
    Note

    If SMTP is not available for a specific Availability Zone, the zone will be greyed out.

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