This article explains how to configure
e-mail sending for the Adonis Personnel Manager (APM) installations located
on the
Adonis Cloud.
Introduction
Adonis applications have inbuilt functionality to send various e-
mails (notifications & payslips to crew members, reports,
etc.). While Adonis applications don’t incorporate their own SMTP server, it uses standard protocols to communicate with any SMTP server for sending e-mails.
To send e-mails and notifications from the installations located in Adonis Cloud (hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform), it is necessary to
set up one of the
methods available in Adonis:
SMTP
and Office 365
In this article we will cover the SMTP configuration.
Setup and Configuration
Adonis Personnel Manager (APM) has two places where the mail server is configured in
Global Options:
One is for sending
mail in general (when choosing to send mail to crew members from the crew list view or other places).
Another one is used for sending standard (in-build) payslip reports.
Let’s check how to set it up.
Setup and Configuration
General tab
The setup for sending
emails, in general, is configured under
Setup > Global options > General.
Here you need to
For the selected option you also need to define Server and Port.
Please also note that Microsoft has tightened the
:
Select the security method -Office 365 or SMTP.
Define the Server and Port.
Depending on whether you use Office 365 or SMTP, there will be a different set of fields that you need to fill in under Authentication.
Authentication > SMTP
Authentication > Office 365
Payroll tab
If you use a standard/ in-build payslip report, then you also need to make the same configuration under the Setup > Global options > Payroll > Email reports > Communication.
Ports
Microsoft has strict anti-spam filtering policies for all its platforms
. Thus the the number of ports allowed for Office 365 or SMTP is limited:
Blocked Ports: 25;
Allowed Ports: 443, 465, 587;
If the port is blocked or set incorrectly you
will get the "socket 10060" error:
For the mail box we must use TLS encryption protocol for sending mails.
In Azure we support TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.2. But APM itself has many hard-coded references to TLSv1, which might create issues if you use TLSv1.2.
Thus we recommend to test send e-mail properly from different places if you decide on TLSv1.2.
If you use standard/ in-build payslip report, then you also need to make the same configuration under the Setup > Global options > Payroll > Email reports > Communication.
