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 Azure Cloud 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.Global Options:

• One is for sending mails 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 the 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 the Authentication.

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: