Changing Email Settings in Joomla 3.1

Your Joomla 3.0 website may send many emails, so it’s important to ensure your email is setup properly. For example, Joomla can send emails when new users register, and it can also send new emails when comments are posted on an article. Joomla can use different methods to send these emails, such as the php mail function, sendmail, and SMTP. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps for updating your email settings within Joomla 3.0

To update your mail settings in Joomla 3.0:

1. Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard
2. Click Global Configuration in the left menu
3. Next to Site and System, click the Server tab towards the top of the page
4. Find the heading labeled Mail Settings. Fill in the appropriate details underneath, and then click the Save button in the top left of the page.

   Joomla 3.0 gives the following description for each email setting:

   Mailer	Select which mailer for the delivery of site email.
   From email	The email address that will be used to send site email.
   From Name	Text displayed in the header “From:” field when sending a site email. Usually the site name.
   Sendmail Path	Enter the path to the sendmail program directory on the host server.
   SMTP Authentication	Select Yes if your SMTP Host requires SMTP Authentication.
   SMTP Security	Select the security model that your SMTP server uses.
   SMTP Port	Enter the port number of your SMTP server. Use 25 for most unsecure servers and 465 for most secure servers.
   SMTP Username	Enter the username for access to the SMTP host.
   SMTP Password	Enter the password for the SMTP host
   SMTP Host	Enter the name of the SMTP host.

   The above are generic steps for updating your email settings in Joomla 3.0. For a specific example, such as setting up email to use SMTP, please see our Could not instantiate mail function troubleshooter.