October 21, 20205 yr Hi, I am a developer with a number of clients and I look after about 3 servers. As part of this, I have used SendGrid as an easy, free SMTP sending server. Has worked fine. Here I am just talking about sending with Send Mail script step -nothing complex like the API. I am thinking about sending both from scripts (so Send Mail script step) and server itself (FMS error messages etc). SendGrid is now enforcing two factor authentication which is problematic as I have used a number of SendGrid accounts in different places. I have read one can use Google's with an app password but what I really want is something that has these characteristics: - I can set it up myself without having to hassle my client for anything (like their Gmail credentials). - Separate from my own Gmail. I am not sending Spam (mostly things like order confirmations) but I wouldn't want these things on my main account. - Something where I can have multiple accounts if necessary. SendGrid used to deliver this but now it is all getting more complex than I think it should! Anyway. Anybody have any ideas about how best to do this in 2020 now that everything is getting more and more locked down. THANKS. - Chris
October 21, 20205 yr https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/getting-started-smtp/ https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/getting-started-smtp/#before-you-begin https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/api-getting-started/ even if you use 2fA you can use SendGrid via SMTP by using the username and password which is base64 encoded username: apikey and the key.. also you can also use HTTPPost to push to the api and not use SMTP relay, it could be faster less prone to rejection https://www.teamdf.com/blogs/sending-email-from-filemaker-using-sparkpost/ although this was for a different service the concept is the same.
October 28, 20205 yr Author FYI, to anybody reading this, I did try the SendGrid instructions and they are fairly simple - Base64 Encoded "apikey" and then the API key but it just doesn't work so I gave up on SendGrid. Bottom line is that SendGrid is VERY focussed on API implementations and just far more hassle than worth it. I was successful with gmail and creating an app password.
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