SMTP workflow improvements #30
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We've removed the Email Digest Frequency Section and added it to the Emails section
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| description: Configure your Forem's SMTP server settings. | |||
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| description: Configure your Forem's Email Server Settings. | |||
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We've renamed SMTP Settings to a more human readable "Email Server Settings"
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| ## Forem Cloud Clients | ||
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| As a Forem Cloud client, we provide an email server managed by the Forem team. All settings are managed by us and the from and reply email addresses for all emails are set as noreply@forem.com. |
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We've added the ability for Forem Cloud Clients to override their Sendgrid settings and use custom SMTP settings if they wish to.
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We've added a from and reply to email address
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| description: Set your community email address. | |||
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| description: Set your community email address and periodic email digest. | |||
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We've reworked the Emails section to remove the default email which was disabled anyways. We've added a contact email and moved the email digest field to the emails section
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These positions don't seem to matter as it seems that the nav links are getting sorted alphabetically. However, I just updated them anyways. Let me know if this was the wrong thing to do?
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Absolutely fine to update these
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| # Newsletter | ||
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| Newsletter settings allow you to integrate your Mailchimp newsletter audience with your Forem community members. Newsletters are sent from your Mailchimp account and are different from your [Forem Email Digests](https://admin.forem.com/docs/advanced-customization/config/email-digest-frequency). | ||
| Newsletter settings allow you to integrate your Mailchimp newsletter audience with your Forem community members. Newsletters are sent from your Mailchimp account and are different from your [Forem Email Digests](https://admin.forem.com/docs/advanced-customization/config/emails#periodic-email-digest). |
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I've updated all links for the digest email and email server settings to point to the correct updated pages
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| title: "Configure SMTP Settings", | |||
| url: "docs/advanced-customization/config/smtp-settings", | |||
| title: "Configure Email Server Settings (SMTP)", | |||
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Renamed the title and the link and also pointed all links to this updated URL
Ridhwana
requested review from
FounderCasey,
ellativity and
michael-tharrington
and removed request for
FounderCasey and
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| ## Forem Cloud Clients | ||
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| As a Forem Cloud client, we provide an email server managed by the Forem team. All settings are managed by us and the from and reply email addresses for all emails are set as noreply@forem.com. |
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I propose either
You are a Forem Cloud client. We provide Forem Cloud clients with an email server managed by the Forem team.
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As a Forem Cloud client, you are provided with an email server managed by the Forem team.
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Updated, thank you Ella ❤️
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Description
This PR updates the documentation associated with this issue. We have made some improvements to the SMTP workflow, added reply_to and from email addresses for SMTP configuration and finally added a contact email to our config.
Here's a link to a draft post with more info.
Related Issues & Documents
forem/forem#16180
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