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

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:

• 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

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Authentication > Office 365

 

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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: