📧Mail Setup

The evaluator can work without an email setup, but we highly recommend enabling it.

Why Do I Need to Configure Email?

Evaluators use a unique code for candidates to access the questionnaire. Email is the most effective method for delivering this code to the relevant candidates, allowing them to start the quiz conveniently. Otherwise, site administrators would need to find alternative ways to share the code, such as communicating it manually.

Prerequisites

• Email account

Configure Mail Account

Setting up an email account is very easy. All you need to do is configure the correct mail settings in the .env file.

Open the .env file, locate the mail configuration section, and fill in the values as shown below.

MAIL_DRIVER="Your mail driver"           → (e.g., smtp)
MAIL_HOST="Your mail host"               → (e.g., smtp.gmail.com)
MAIL_PORT="Your mail port"               → (e.g., 587)
MAIL_USERNAME="Your email ID"            → (e.g., [e-mail])
MAIL_PASSWORD="Your email password"      → (e.g., your email account password)
MAIL_ENCRYPTION="Your encryption type"   → (e.g., tls or ssl)

• MAIL_DRIVER: Usually set as smtp

• MAIL_HOST: For Gmail it is smtp.gmail.com, for others it could be smtp.sendgrid.net, etc.

• MAIL_PORT: Common values are 587, 465, or 2525, depending on your email provider

• MAIL_USERNAME: The email ID used to send emails from your app

• MAIL_PASSWORD: The actual password or app-specific password of your email

• MAIL_ENCRYPTION: Usually tls or ssl (used to secure the connection)

If the email address is [e-mail]; values must be filled as following

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=[e-mail]
MAIL_PASSWORD=yourpassword
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls