SMTP and Sendgrid

denisgomes · October 5, 2016, 3:11am

Howdy,
I’d like to report something. I’m using Sendgrid and they do provide SMTP credentials so I can send e-mails through their server.

So I was going to set this up in Invoice Ninja and it didn’t work. Sendgrid says you should use APIKEY as the username, and the actual API key as password. But then, there is no USERNAME field in Invoice Ninja. And if I try to put APIKEY as the SENDER EMAIL ADDRESS, Invoice Ninja complains that it doesn’t follow standard mailbox naming.

I got around this by editing the .env file and putting APIKEY as username there, but it would be nice to have authentication fields separate from sender address in Invoice Ninja. SMTP providers such as Sendgrid and others do have specific authentication instructions and they usually differ from the usual username/password combination used in regular mailboxes.

hillel · October 5, 2016, 3:17am

Thanks for letting us know, we’ll consider this change for a future release.

system · October 11, 2016, 10:00am

@denisgomes Can you please give me more info about the workaround? I want to use sendgrid too but have no idea how to do it.

edit: also is there a way to add reply-to option to env file?

hillel · October 12, 2016, 8:15am

The reply-to header is automatically set to the user’s email address.

system · October 16, 2016, 7:55am

Thanks for your answer @Hillel. Would it be acceptable for you to make it an option of .env file? The application can read it from the .env file. Advanced users can modify it. Thanks again!

denisgomes · October 17, 2016, 1:03am

Hey drdrake, I just edited the username in the .env file. However I ran a quick test and it didn’t seem to work, but I just did one test, I’ll have to come back to this later.

system · October 17, 2016, 1:04am

Thanks for getting back to me. If you find a wordaround, please tell me. Thanks!

hillel · October 17, 2016, 6:22pm

I’ll look into adding the .env option in our next release.

system · October 18, 2016, 2:03am

Thank you very much!

hillel · October 30, 2016, 10:37pm

It looks like there may already be a .env option. Try setting MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS to the email address and MAIL_USERNAME to the API key.

system · November 1, 2016, 11:32pm

@hillel Thanks! Will this option be available in the settings panel in invoiceninja in a future version?

hillel · November 1, 2016, 11:53pm

Possibly in a future release.