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Add SMTP Collaboration Provider

Add your SMTP server as a Harness Collaboration Provider, to use email for deployment notifications, approvals, and tracking. In this topic:

Before You Begin​

Limitations​

Configuring your SMTP server is required only if you are using Harness On-Prem, or if you wish to use your own SMTP server instead of the Harness SaaS default SMTP option.

Step 1: Add Collaboration Provider​

Start adding a Collaboration Provider to Harness as follows:

  1. Click Setup.
  2. Click Connectors.
  3. Click Collaboration Providers.
  4. Click Add Collaboration Provider. This opens the default Collaboration Provider settings, which you will configure in the following steps.

Step 2: Type​

In Type select SMTP. The SMTP settings appear.

Step 3: Display Name​

In Display Name, enter a unique name for this Collaboration Provider.

Step 4: Host​

In Host, enter the SMTP server's URL.

Step 5: Port​

Enter the port number on which the SMTP server is listening (typically, 25).

Step 6: SSL​

Select this option for secure connections (SSL/TLS).

Step 7: Start TLS​

Select this option to enable SMTP over TLS, or when the connection is upgraded to SSL/TLS using STARTTLS.

Step 8: From Address​

Enter the email address from which Harness will send emails.

Step 9: Username​

Enter the username for the email account.

Step 10: Password​

In Select Encrypted Password, select or create a new Harness Encrypted Text secret for the email account password.

Step 11: Usage Scope​

Usage scope is inherited from the secret you entered in Select Encrypted Password.

Step 12: Test and Save​

  1. Click Test to check your configuration.
  2. When the test is successful, click Submit to save your SMTP Collaboration Provider.

Next Steps​