Email is used to communicate with users on your installation of Appsmith. Emails are sent out to

• Verify new user signups

• Invite users to your organisation in Appsmith

• Notify admins of important events & approvals requests

Enabling Email

1. To enable email, open the docker.env file of your Appsmith installation and uncomment the following block

# ***** Email **********
APPSMITH_MAIL_ENABLED=false
# APPSMITH_MAIL_FROM=YOUR_VERIFIED_EMAIL_ID
# APPSMITH_REPLY_TO=YOUR_VERIFIED_EMAIL_ID
# APPSMITH_MAIL_HOST=
# APPSMITH_MAIL_PORT=
# ***** Set to true if providing a TLS port ******
# APPSMITH_MAIL_SMTP_TLS_ENABLED=
# APPSMITH_MAIL_USERNAME=
# APPSMITH_MAIL_PASSWORD=
# APPSMITH_MAIL_SMTP_AUTH=true
# ******************************

1. Update the APPSMITH_MAIL_ENABLED field to true

2. Fetch the remaining configuration fields from your email service. The following is a guide to fetch configurations from a few common email service providers

3. ​Sendgrid​

4. ​Amazon SES​