Saturday, November 8, 2014

Configure SMTP SendGrid for applications that do not support SMTP Authentication

If you are using SMTP SendGrid to send e-mails from within your Windows Azure VMs, you may encounter numerous applications that do not natively support configuring authentication for sending out SMTP e-mail messages.  One such application is SharePoint 2013.

Fortunately, the folks at SMTP SendGrid have created a nice little article for us to configure IIS to allow sending authenticated e-mail mesages through SMTP SendGrid as well as testing out the e-mail functionality through a nice little set of telnet commands.

You can find the article on how to configure IIS SMTP to use in conjunction with SMTP SendGrid here: https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Mail_Servers/iis75.html

2 comments:

  1. Hi ssvaidya,
    Any idea why SharePoint Alert Email links have SendGrid URLs instead of pointing back to my document library? Should these links work? e.g.https://u2011212.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=E9gCDYzFpgNFcIp6IB4q2eBUjgrAGofTqv-2BUzVb1WQ6XdW-2BIUEJ9x-2FaeHXNoiJtp_HRY-2BPrne9lHpH74jMsadld72z9xtibdM6WPh2BftcARInxr5qSPjfbqMgFXldpAvI-2FNXKv66idfBF19Cxd0IIw9-2B-2FYlh7EsTQ7DtMTzlBNSY8x9VrPSNKo1RKez2FJ2fYAZWrpOgJi8DL6Z-2BFuKps-2Flz-2B9nR-2Fy-2FwBY8VqciEwhmLk27FoB8YVsqpkmVyResnHPPEn7fsID4GOX7pzLyrwKuxrdM862yASZohpKMm60g-3D

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    1. turns out we have to turn off SendGrid's 'Click tracking' - I had to open a SendGrid ticket to do that.

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