So before we can actually start sending email, we need someone to send the email for us.
In other words, we need an SMTP server.
Now, if you already have an SMTP server and you want to use that, this step is absolutely optional.
But if you don't mail trapped on, it has a pretty good free service, which is good for developers.
And you get there.
There's a link to this in the course, resources for this page by going to mail trapped audio.
And if you look at the pricing, this is the one we want free for new users who want to evaluate and
it's free forever.
It's a pretty good one.
Or at least it's they say it's free forever.
We'll see.
But any case, it's free right now.
So go get an account on that.
And it's a free account.
Sign up for it and log into your account.
And when you do, you'll see something like this, your demo inbox.
If I click on that, I actually have a little link here that says use these settings to send messages
directly from your email client or MTA and it's show credentials.
So click on that.
And that has all the information we're going to need to be able to send email from our application because
we don't want to send actual email.
We want it to be trapped somewhere.
And there are many options for doing this in other courses that I have offered up on you.
To me, I used a service called Mail Hug, and if you've taken one of those courses, you might have
the mail hug installed on your machine and you feel free to use that.
But I'm going to be using mail drop for the remainder of this course.
So get that set up, make a note of the host, the port, the username and the password and my username
and password that you can see right here.
That's the one I'll be using for this course.
But a little bit later on, I'll be resetting my credentials or simply deleting this account and creating
a new one.
So don't bother trying to use these because they'll be gone before the course goes live.
All right, let's move on.