Send Proposal Invites From Personal Email Accounts on OpenSolar

By default, any email sent to customer via OpenSolar goes through hello@opensolar.com. Pro Admins have the ability to change this email address to their personal/organisation email. 

Note: The password to the email account would be visible to all admins in your OpenSolar account. 

To update the email, please copy the SMTP settings of your account in JSON format into Control > Company > Settings > Email Settings. Required field are: host, port, username, password.

{ "host": "", "port": <port>, "username": "", "password": "" }

Note: username must be a full email address. Port should be a number.

For gmail/GSuite Accounts
host: "smtp.gmail.com"
port: 465 (SSL) or 587 (TLS)

For accounts without 2 factor authentication:

• Please allow less secure apps here: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

For accounts with 2 factor authentication:

• Please create an App Password and use that (16 digit) password in the SMTP JSON string.
  You can create an App Password here: https://myaccount.google.com/u/1/apppasswords 
• Use port: 587

Note: Google might block emails if your account does not have 2 factor authentication. We highly recommend using a 2 factor authenticated account (using App Password).

For Microsoft Outlook 365
host: "smtp.office365.com"
port: 465 (SSL) or 587 (TLS)

For Hotmail
host: "smtp.live.com"
port: 465 (SSL) or 587 (TLS)

For Yahoo
host: "smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
port: 465 (SSL) or 587 (TLS)

Example:

{ 
  "host": "smtp.gmail.com", 
  "port": 587, 
  "username": "testuseropensolar@gmail.com", 
  "password": "xp**mas*t" 
}