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Connect with SMTP Mailing

Aliveforms provides the flexibility to connect forms with third party SMTP mailing, allowing you to send emails using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) upon form submission.

Prerequisite

  • Account of mailing service with SMTP for example, Hostinger.

Create new SMTP Integration

  • To create a new SMTP integration in Aliveforms, either click on New Integration from the dashboard or browse Integrations and click the New button.
  • Select SMTP Integration.

* Select SMTP Integration

Setup in Aliveforms

In the Aliveforms Integration Editor, SMTP integration setup requires:

  • Connection
  • Template
  • Collection Tags

Configuring

  • Start by providing SMTP credentials. Check your service provider for these.
  • SMTP Host
  • SMTP Port
  • SMTP username
  • SMTP Password
  • Security

Email Template

This is the body of the email that will be sent. You can use text and collection index to make dynamic content.

Collection Index In the form, the screens that are marked collectable have an index. For example:

Screen Index Screen Collectable Collection Index
0 Welcome (info) No
1 Email (text input) Yes 0
2 Ok (info) No
3 Name (text input) Yes 1
  • Email is [[COLLECTION.0]]
  • Name is [[COLLECTION.1]]

If a screen is in a Compound screen (e.g., Contact, Address, Compound Inputs, Dynamic List), provide a sub-index.

Collection Tags

Collection tags are used to configure dynamic information for the SMTP integration. Form SMTP integrations, collection tags include FROM_NAME, FROM_EMAIL, TO_NAME, TO_EMAIL, SUBJECT.

In SMTP Integrations, there are following collection Tags

SUBJECT

The subject of email. it can be text or dynamic input from collection tag.

TO_NAME

It is the name to whom email is sent. It can be visitor name or your own to get notification. It can be text or dynamic input from collection tag.

TO_EMAIL

It is the email address to whom email is sent. It can be visitor email or your own to get notification. It can be text or dynamic input from collection tag.

FROM_NAME

It is then name from whom email is sent. It should be your email.

FROM_EMAIL

It is email address from whom email is sent. It should be your email.

Save the Integration

Click on the Save icon to save the integration data.

Connect Form with SMTP Mailing

  • Edit the form where you want to use SMTP mailing.
  • Open Integrations settings.
  • Select your SMTP integration and click apply.