Configure Mail Settings in Joomla

Joomla, just like WordPress, is also a feature-rich content management system. Joomla has a market share of 6.7% in the content management systems market. It provides a great interface to create and publish awesome content on the internet. Many popular websites run on Joomla. While some websites do not send automatic E-mails, but the system can be modified to create a different type of websites like eCommerce stores that requires you to send E-mails to your customers.

The main thing you have to take care of while sending the E-mails is, they should arrive in the Primary or Updates section of your customer’s inbox. The best way to ensure this is to set up proper From email, From name and the SMTP server to relay your automated or bulk E-mails to your customers. With SMTP, your E-mails are sent from your Email service provider’s servers so you don’t have to worry about email deliverability.

If you want to send bulk or automated emails from your website, you should have a proper name and from email ao that your customers can easily identify your E-mails. Joomla provides us an interface to update the Mailing information so that it can use that information to send Emails. So, let’s get started with the tutorial.

Configure Mail Settings in Joomla

First of all, log in to the admin panel of your Joomla site. From the top menu bar, hover on the System option to see a drop-down menu containing detailed options. From the drop-down, click on the Global Configuration option. Refer to the following screenshot to locate the option.

On this page, you will see a lot of options that you can modify as per your requirements. Click on the Server tab to update the mail settings in your Joomla site.

In the Servers tab, find the Mail Settings section to update settings. In this section, you can set whether you want to send E-mails from your site, whether or not you want to send bulk Emails, From email, From name and Mailer.

After updating the information, click on the Save button given on the top-left corner of the page in green background. See the following screenshot to find the save button.