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title: "Using email service"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to set up and use email services for your Drupal application on Acquia China Managed Service. Discover SMTP options, configuration steps, and best practices for reliable email delivery."
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Drupal applications need to send emails for several purposes such as password resets, user registrations, or other notifications. To meet these purposes, Acquia China Managed Service provides a primitive SMTP service.

Important

Since Acquia China Managed Service is build based on AWS EC2 instances, Amazon Web Services’ EC2 instances are throttled on port 25 by default as a spam prevention measure. Therefore, you must [create a Support ticket](/service-offerings/support#contact-acquia-support) and request the Support team to enable the SMTP mail service.

Note

Acquia recommends you to use a third-party email service for advanced email service, such as email marketing or bulk user notifications.

Procedure
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To enable the email service on Acquia China Managed Service:

1.  [Create a Support ticket](/service-offerings/support#contact-acquia-support) and mention the Support team domain that you want to use for the email service.
    
2.  After receiving a DNS SPF record from the Support team, update these config for your domain.
    

Examples of the SPF record settings
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1.  Create the following subdomain based on the SPF domain:
    
        _spf.example.com
    
2.  Add the following SPF entry to your original domain TXT record:
    
        v=spf1 include:_spf.example.com -all
    
3.  Add the following SPF entry to your new created SPF domain:
    
        v=spf1 ip4:10.0.0.1 ip4:10.0.0.2 -all