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Send e-mails from midPoint via SMTP server

Last modified 26 Feb 2026 09:25 +01:00

In order to have midPoint send notifications or any messages by e-mail at all, you need to configure a SMTP server connection. MidPoint needs to send e-mails on various occasions, most notably to to send notifications and password reset links.

To enable sending e-mails, you need to configure mail transport in the messageTransportConfiguration object. Refer to Notification and Transport Configuration for details.

To configure SMTP server connection in GUI:

In System, select the Notifications tile.
In Mail transports, click New.
Name the transport descriptively and fill in the needed connection details.
- You can use the Debug option to have midPoint verbosely log connection and configuration issues to the log file.
Click Done beneath the form.
Click Save in the toolbar at the top.

Figure 1. Basic SMTP server connection configuration

In XML, the mail transport configuration may look like this:

Simple mail transport configuration

<messageTransportConfiguration>
    <mail>
        <name>local mail service</name>
        <debug>true</debug>
        <server>
            <host>192.168.0.123</host>
            <port>587</port>
            <username>mailadmin</username>
            <password> (1)
                <t:encryptedData>
                    <t:encryptionMethod>
                        <t:algorithm>http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#aes256-cbc</t:algorithm>
                    </t:encryptionMethod>
                    <t:keyInfo>
                        <t:keyName>...</t:keyName>
                    </t:keyInfo>
                    <t:cipherData>
                        <t:cipherValue>...</t:cipherValue>
                    </t:cipherData>
                </t:encryptedData>
            </password>
            <transportSecurity>starttlsRequired</transportSecurity> (2)
        </server>
        <defaultFrom>notification@midpoint.example.org</defaultFrom> (3)
    </mail>
</messageTransportConfiguration>

1	Encrypted password used to log into the e-mail account on the SMTP server. You may find the GUI more convenient to create this part of the configuration.
2	Connection security setup. Other options are `none`, `starttlsEnabled`, and `ssl`.
3	The sender of e-mails from midPoint. You can override this value in a notifier configuration using `fromExpression`.

If you do not need e-mail notifications and do not want users to reset their password using the reset password link on the login prompt, you do not need to set up SMTP server connection at all.

Send e-mails from midPoint via SMTP server

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