Configure SMTP using spring-boot-admin

Question

I like to send notification emails with spring-boot-admin-server. I have configured it as described here:

http://codecentric.github.io/spring-boot-admin/1.3.0/#mail-notifications

However, I do not know how the SMTP is to be used. I think all of them (gmail, gmx,...) require some sort of authentication, isn't it? How can I provide the authentication? Or is the idea that you set up your own SMTP server without any authentication?

Answer 1

In case you are using the spring-boot-starter-mail you can configure the mail sender using the spring.mail.*-properties. Username can be set via spring.mail.username and password via spring.mail.password.

Have a look at the corresponding appendix in spring-boot`s reference guide.

p.s.: The SBA 1.3.0 is totally outdated - you should update!