Please follow these steps to set up the email service for your Opencart website.
-Please log in to your Opencart website admin page to set up the SMTP settings.
Login to your site backend-->system-->settings-->mail
Mail Protocol: We only support SMTP protocol, so please choose SMTP.
Mail Parameters: Just ignore this, because this is only used for Mail protocol.
SMTP Host: The address of the SMTP host.
SMTP Username: The full email address.
SMTP Password: Your email account password
SMTP Port: 25
SMTP Timeout: use the default parameter.
New Order Alter Mail: Select 'Yes' will send a notification email for every order submitted in the storefront.
New Account Alert Mail: Select 'Yes' will send a notification email for every account created in the storefront.
Additional Alert E-mails: List any additional e-mails that should also receive the notification emails above.
- Please log in to your site backend-->system-->General to set the correct store owner's email address.
- Locate to file \system\library\mail.php, line 274 and line 276 from the file manager or FTP,
replace
$this->from
with
$this->username
Please note : If you are using Opencart (v2.1.0.1) that installed from APP Installer, you may need to replace lines 312 and 314 with below:
fputs($handle, 'MAIL FROM: <' . $this->smtp_username . '>XVERP' . "\r\n");
} else {
fputs($handle, 'MAIL FROM: <' . $this->smtp_username . '>' . "\r\n");
If you are using Opencart with a higher version, just make sure you select "SMTP" Mail Protocol.
