How to set up Gmail SMTP for your Magento Store?

04Jan 2023 by admin No Comments

As a developer or a store owner, you need to send emails to your customers after their account registration, newsletter subscription, order completed notification, etc., So, Sending/receiving transactional emails to/from customers is an essential part of running an e-commerce store.

This blog serves as a guide to setting up Gmail SMTP for your Magento store.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the protocol that allows you to send emails from your Magento 2 store through a specific third-party mail SMTP server. All you need is to configure that mail server setting in an extension in Magento without having to do any complex server configuration.

With a reliable SMTP server configuration, you can minimize the chances of your emails getting into spam.
Emails are delivered instantaneously to their intended recipients without delays.
You can easily configure Magento 2 SMTP settings from Magento2 store admin.

Steps involved in setting up Gmail SMTP:

Step 1:

Search and download any SMTP module available in the marketplace
Install the SMTP module in your store

Step 2:

Create a Gmail account and login
In the Setting page, make some minor changes on Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
You will turn POP/IMAP on at this step
In POP Download, with 1. Status choose Enable POP for all email
In MAP Access, choose Enable IMAP
Click Save changes at the bottom

Step 3:

In this step, you need to create App Password in Gmail. This is because Google requires that you have 2-step verification enabled before you can set up an application password.

Choose Manage Your Google Account. Select Security and then click on Signing in to Google.
Proceed with the 2nd step of verification to verify your phone number.
Now you would have created the App password.