Emailing with Rackspace


You can use Big Business Mail to send emails directly, without using a desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook or macOS Mail.

This Solution provides setup details for Rackspace. (6709)






Here are the steps to set up Rackspace:

1. Go to the Employee toolbar to MyPrefs

2. For Print Options choose Advanced

3. For Email Client choose Big Business Mail

4. Click OK to save MyPrefs


Then in Print Options for a transaction (Quote, Order, Invoice):

1. Click to select a form, to put a 1 in the # (number of copies) column.

2. In the Destination column choose Send Email

3. Make sure Show Print Dialogs is NOT checked

4. Click OK


This will open a new Note, where you can do Gmail setup:

1. Go to Send From and choose Show List

2. Click Add (+) to add Gmail

3. Enter Name (rackspace), Server (secure.emailsrvr.com), Port (465), SSL (checked), Send From (sales@mycompany.com), User Name (sales@mycompany.com), and Password, where name and password are those you use to logon to Rackspace Webmail.

4. Click OK and OK to save settings for re-use

5. Click SEND on the Note to send via Rackspace.



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