How to Set Your Google Account as Your Ragic Database’s SMTP Server?

If you want to send emails from your database through your Gmail account, you can follow the steps below to set your Google account as your database’s SMTP Server.

1. Go to your Google Account management page by clicking your profile picture in the top right corner of your Gmail page, then select "Manage your Google Account".

2. Enter the security settings page, and click to enter the 2-step verification settings page.

3. Turn on your Google account’s 2-step verification.

4. After turning 2-step verification on, click to enter the 2-step verification page again and scroll to the bottom to click and enter the “App passwords” settings page.

5. Type an App name such as "Ragic" and then click "Create" to generate the app password.

6. Apply the SMTP settings to your database, with the setup methods for the Cloud Database and On-Premises Database outlined below.

Cloud Database SMTP Settings

Please go to your Ragic database’s Company Settings page and enter your SMTP information:

Enable Customization SMTP Settings: Yes
SMTP Address: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port: 587
SMTP Account: Your Google account
SMTP Password: The app password generated in step 5

The other SMTP settings fields are optional.

On-Premises Database SMTP Settings

If your database is on-premises, please enter the following parameters in Private Server Config:

SMTP_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_SENDER_AUTH_USER=Your Google Account
SMTP_SENDER_AUTH_PWD=The app password you generated in step 5
SMTP_SSL_ENABLE=true
SMTP_SSL_PORT=587
SMTP_SENDER_PERSONAL=Sender Email Name
SMTP_SENDER_EMAL=Sender Email Address

Remember to restart your on-premises service after modifying parameters in Private Server Config.