Introduction
This article guides you through using Gravity SMTP to integrate your website email connection to your SendGrid service by Twilio. SendGrid offers a free service up to a limited quantity of emails per day, which can make it a low commitment option for small websites with only modest outgoing email needs.
Steps To Connect
To allow Gravity SMTP to send messages from your website via the SendGrid service, you will need to complete the following steps:
- Create a Twilio SendGrid account (as required for the plan you are using).
- Authenticate a domain as Sender Identity in SendGrid.
Adding a “sender identify” to your SendGrid account is required in order to prove ownership of the email address and domain that outgoing messages will be representing. You must complete this step before configuring the SendGrid Integration within Gravity SMTP. Refer to this help guide for instructions on how to complete this step. - Obtain your SendGrid API key.
This will be required in settings to create the link between SendGrid and your website via Gravity SMTP. Refer to this help guide for instructions on how to find that API key in your SendGrid account. - Complete the Gravity SMTP Settings screen.
Go to Gravity SMTP → Settings → Integrations and click the + icon. From the list of available integrations, search and select SendGrid. This will add it to your integrations and display its settings fields, which you’ll need to complete to finish setup. See this help guide for a description of these settings. - Click Save Changes button.
After saving, you’ll return to the Settings card page, where the new integration card will appear in the list. You can then test using the Gravity SMTP “Send a Test” Tool.
Once the integration is set up, it will be ready for use. You can verify the connection with a test email and send it through SendGrid when needed.