SMTP gate

What is an SMTP gate

SMTP-gate is a way to send us jobs to send emails via the SMTP protocol. The difference between API and SMTP is the data transfer protocol used: SMTP or HTTP protocol. With the SMTP protocol, a sequence of commands is used to send to the server.

Authorisation and sending a message

The enKod authentication is done using SMTP keys. Obtain an SMTP key from your personal SMTP manager to use the SMTP gateway.

Connect to the SMTP server at address: smtpgateway.enkod.io:587

Use the following command sequence:

STARTTLS - after entering this command, all further communication between the client and the server takes place via encrypted TLS protocol.
EHLO - welcome message, in response we receive a list of server settings
AUTH PLAIN - base64 encoded login and password (only SMTP API key as password is required for authentication, login is left blank)
MAIL FROM - email address from which the message will be sent
RCPT TO - email address to which the message is to be sent
DATA - after entering this command you can enter the message body with headers.

Example of a request to send via openssl

s_client -starttls smtp -connect smtpgateway.enkod.ru:587
ehlo testmail.ru
auth plain AABfN3lhTUZtcm5hZ251VFRXR1lueVNiQWNLX2R4VTh4WWVYdzV2UzBYXVpMQ==
mail from:test@testmail.ru
rcpt to:test2@testmail.ru
data
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:42:13 GMT
From: test@testmail.ru
To: test2@testmail.ru
Subject: subject
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
MIME-Version: 1.0

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" style="font-family:'open sans', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport"/>
<meta name="x-apple-disable-message-reformatting"/>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"/>
<meta content="telephone=no" name="format-detection"/>
<title>title</title><!--[if (mso 16)]>
<style type="text/css">
a {text-decoration: none;}
</head>
<html>
<body>
message body
</body>
</html>

Possible errors

invalid from email - the sending email does not match the structure of name@domain.com.
no username or password - AUTH PLAIN authentication is not used.
api key doesn't have accesses - no SMTP access for API key
client is deleted - account is inactive or deleted
internal service error - internal service error
wrong api key - API key is invalid

Table of Contents

SMTP gate

What is an SMTP gate

Authorisation and sending a message

Possible errors