E-Mail Notification Settings¶

• Send e-mails for review requests and reviews:

  If enabled, e-mails will be sent out whenever a review request is posted or updated, or when reviews and replies are posted.

  See E-Mail and Review Groups for more information.

• Send e-mails when review requests are closed:

  If enabled, e-mails will be sent out whenever a review request has been closed/discarded.

• Send e-mails to administrators when new users register accounts:

  If enabled, e-mails will be sent to the system administrator whenever a new user account has been registered, helping administrators on-board new users or catch suspicious activity.

• Send e-mails to users when they change their password:

  If enabled, e-mails will be sent to users any time they change their password. For password-based authentication setups, this can help users confirm that their password change went through successfully, and can also catch any account hijacking.

• Send e-mails when new users register an account:

  If enabled, e-mails will be sent to the administrator every time a new user signs up to the site. This is useful for open source projects that are interested in new user signups.

E-Mail Delivery Settings¶

• Default From address:

  The default e-mail address that e-mails are sent from. The Sender e-mail header will be used to make e-mails appear to come from the user causing the e-mail to be sent. By using the Sender header for this instead of From, there’s less risk that e-mail clients will consider the e-mails to be malicious or spam. This may require a proper DKIM setup.

  This defaults to noreply@<servername>.

• Use the user’s From address:

  Controls which From address is use for outgoing e-mails.

  If set to Auto, then any new e-mails sent out will use the sending user’s own e-mail address only if there’s no risk of a DMARC record quarantining the e-mail. If there is a risk, then the default From address will be used instead.

  If set to Always, then the user’s own e-mail address will always be used, without needing to perform a record lookup first. This can speed up sending, but at the risk of a mail server or client flagging the e-mail as suspicious.

  If set to Never, then the default From address will always be used.

• Enable “Auto-Submitted: auto-generated” header:

  Configures whether this header will be attached to any outgoing e-mails. This can be turned off if using a mailing list that reject e-mails containing this header.

E-Mail Server Settings¶

• Mail server:

  The SMTP mail server used for outgoing e-mails. This defaults to localhost.

• Port:

  The SMTP mail server port. This defaults to 25.

• Username:

  The username needed to connect to the outgoing SMTP mail server, if any. This is optional and depends on the mail server configuration.

• Password:

  The password needed to connect to the outgoing SMTP mail server, if any. This is optional and depends on the mail server configuration.

• Use TLS for authentication:

  If enabled, TLS is used for mail server authentication. This is more secure, but requires TLS support on the mail server.

• Send a test e-mail after saving:

  Enable this to send a test e-mail address to yourself after saving the form. This can help verify that your e-mail setup is correct.