Enabling and testing email configuration on your moodle server

I recently set up a moodle instance on a new server.  I forgot to enable the email.  I found out when one of my customers says "James, I tried sending login info to one of the accounts I created and they said they never got the email"...or something like that.

I thought, "opps, I did not set up the email in the new instance.".

Setting up email steps

Site Admin | Plugins | Message outputs | Email

Specify the following items:

SMTP Host: -  I used IP address..
SMTP Username
SMTP Password

I am simply using the same data that I have in 9 other moodle installs, so I did not have to ask for credentials to be created by the folks managing the SMTP mail server.

I tested the email operation by messaging my moodle account on the server and visualizing the email into the account specified.

The end.