Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating SMTP Credentials

Learn how to create SMTP credentials.

Using the Console

  1. View the user's details:
    • If you're generating SMTP credentials for yourself: Select the Profile menu (Profile menu icon), which is on the upper-right side of the navigation bar at the top of the page, and then click User Settings, or your account name.
    • If you're an administrator generating SMTP credentials for another user: Open the navigation menu and click Identity & Security. Under Identity, click Users. Find the user in the list, and then click the user's name to view the details.
    Note

    OCI SMTP usernames are standard-compliant, and according to the standard, the username field in SMTP AUTH PLAIN standard supports up to 255 bytes.

    SMTP AUTH is the standard used for SMTP email submission. For more information, see RFC 6409 and RFC 4616.

  2. Click SMTP Credentials.
  3. Click Generate SMTP Credentials.
  4. Enter a Description of the SMTP Credentials in the dialog box.
  5. Click Generate SMTP Credentials. A username and password is displayed.
    Note

    Copy the username and password for your records and click Close. Copy the credentials immediately, because you can't retrieve the password again after closing the dialog box for security reasons.