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So before we can actually start sending email, we need someone to send the email for us.

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In other words, we need an SMTP server.

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Now, if you already have an SMTP server and you want to use that, this step is absolutely optional.

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But if you don't mail trapped on, it has a pretty good free service, which is good for developers.

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And you get there.

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There's a link to this in the course, resources for this page by going to mail trapped audio.

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And if you look at the pricing, this is the one we want free for new users who want to evaluate and

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it's free forever.

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It's a pretty good one.

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Or at least it's they say it's free forever.

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We'll see.

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But any case, it's free right now.

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So go get an account on that.

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And it's a free account.

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Sign up for it and log into your account.

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And when you do, you'll see something like this, your demo inbox.

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If I click on that, I actually have a little link here that says use these settings to send messages

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directly from your email client or MTA and it's show credentials.

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So click on that.

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And that has all the information we're going to need to be able to send email from our application because

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we don't want to send actual email.

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We want it to be trapped somewhere.

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And there are many options for doing this in other courses that I have offered up on you.

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To me, I used a service called Mail Hug, and if you've taken one of those courses, you might have

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the mail hug installed on your machine and you feel free to use that.

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But I'm going to be using mail drop for the remainder of this course.

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So get that set up, make a note of the host, the port, the username and the password and my username

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and password that you can see right here.

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That's the one I'll be using for this course.

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But a little bit later on, I'll be resetting my credentials or simply deleting this account and creating

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a new one.

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So don't bother trying to use these because they'll be gone before the course goes live.

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All right, let's move on.