Transactional SMTP Relay
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In the email marketing platform, go to Integrate -> API & SMTP -> SMTP Relay
If you're using Cloudflare for HTTPS, extra steps to enable SMTP Relay are required.
Attachments are currently not supported for transactional mail
Image attachments will be removed automatically, you need to include images by using regular HTML the usual way.
Configure your sending application to use your ESP hostname or IP address and ports 587, 2525, or 8025.
To make a secure encrypted connection, use the TLS extension after connecting via regular SMTP. SSL method is not supported.
If a multipart message consists of text and HTML parts, only HTML will be used.
Text parts are unsupported.
Use your API Key for your username and password.
The following standard headers are valid in a transactional message.
From: The from name and from email address, aka the 'Friendly From' or 'From Name'.
To: Specify the recipient's name but not their email address.
Subject: The message subject line.
Reply-To: Include an optional Reply-To address.
The following platform-specific headers are valid in a transactional message.
X-Transactional-Tag: If left blank, the message will be tracked as “untagged” on the transactional dashboard.
X-Transactional-Route: Specifies a postal route to use. This is required if the customer account has more than one postal route available, otherwise, the message will fail.
X-Transactional-Template: Include a template ID if you want to send this message using a pre-created transactional template.
X-Auth-APIKey: Bypass the SMTP AUTH username and password method and authenticate via header instead.
X-Transactional-Variables: Specifies a JSON string to use as an input dictionary for the Jinja2 templating system.
All other headers are automatically discarded and ignored.
You can actually use whatever you want for the Transactional SMTP Relay username. We recommend using the API Key for the username and password for simplicity of explanation, but the username is actually ignored and discarded and can be anything.
