Configure Email authentication with Zoho
Introduction
This page is dedicated to providing you with valuable resources to help you configure an authentication method based on the email provider you choose. Authentication is an essential security measure that verifies the identity of users and ensures that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive information.
In order to follow this guide, you will need an email provider. If you want to know how to configure your email provider, please follow this link.
Zoho
- Administration panel
You will need to navigate to your ZohoMail administration panel, in order to do that you can click on the gear icon located in the top-right corner of the screen. A drop-down menu will appear with several options, please click on the "Control Panel" to access the Zoho administration panel
You will need to navigate to Security > App password.
- Create your SMTP Credentials
You will be prompt to generate a name for the "App password", we recommend to use "Passbolt".
Then, you will need to click on "Generate" and a random application password will be generated.
Please, be sure to save this password as you will need it to authenticate on the Passbolt GUI.
Your SMTP username should be the Zoho account email address and your SMTP password is the application password that has been generated previously.
- Authentication on Passbolt GUI
On your Passbolt instance, you can navigate to Administration > Email server.
You will need to fill in your smtp credentials to match your authentication method (username & password).
- Test your configuration
Before saving your configuration, you will need to test it in order to avoid any issues. it should pass and give the results shown below.
- Save your configuration
If everything went as expected, do not forget to save your configuration and "Success: The SMTP settings have been saved successfully" should appear.