Email notifications

In the Email Notifications pane, you can allow users to register their own Apps Manager accounts. TAS for VMs uses SMTP to email invitations and confirmations to Apps Manager users. If you do not need this service, leave this pane blank and deactivate the Notifications and Notifications UI errands in the Errands pane.

To configure the Email Notifications pane:

1. Select Email Notifications.

2. For From email, enter the email address from which email notifications are sent.

3. For SMTP server address, enter the SMTP address of the server that sends email notifications.

4. For SMTP server port, enter the port of the SMTP server that sends email notifications.

   Important For GCP, you must use port 2525. Ports 25 and 587 are not allowed on GCP Compute Engine.

5. For SMTP server credentials, enter the user name and password for the SMTP server that sends email notifications.

6. (Optional) To configure your SMTP server to automatically create a secure TLS connection when sending email notifications, select the Use StartTLS protocol check box.

7. After you verify your authentication requirements with your email administrator, select None, Plain, or CRAMMD5 from the SMTP authentication mechanism drop-down menu. If you have no SMTP authentication requirements, select None.

8. If you selected CRAMMD5 as your authentication mechanism, enter a secret in the SMTP CRAMMD5 secret field.

9. Click Save.

Important If you do not configure the SMTP settings in the Email Notifications pane, an administrator for Apps Manager must create orgs and users through the cf CLI. For more information, see Creating and managing users with the cf CLI.