Ghost SMTP
Configure your Ghost blog to send transactional email — member sign-in links, password resets, staff invites — through eusend over SMTP.
Ghost sends two kinds of email: bulk newsletters (which require Mailgun) and
transactional mail — member sign-in links, password resets, and staff invites.
eusend handles the transactional mail through Ghost's mail SMTP configuration,
DKIM-signed and tracked.
config.production.json
Ghost is configured through its config file (or the equivalent environment
variables). Add a mail block:
{
"mail": {
"transport": "SMTP",
"from": "Acme <[email protected]>",
"options": {
"host": "smtp.eusend.dev",
"port": 465,
"secure": true,
"auth": {
"user": "eusend",
"pass": "eu_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
}
}
}
}The from address must be on a domain you have
verified in eusend.
As environment variables
If you run Ghost via Docker or a managed host, the same settings map to environment variables:
mail__transport=SMTP
mail__from[email protected]
mail__options__host=smtp.eusend.dev
mail__options__port=465
mail__options__secure=true
mail__options__auth__user=eusend
mail__options__auth__pass=eu_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxRestart Ghost after changing the config.
Keep "secure": true with port 465 (implicit TLS). Ghost's mail transport is
Nodemailer under the hood, so secure: false would attempt STARTTLS on the
wrong port and fail.
Verify
In Ghost admin, go to Settings → Staff and send yourself an invite, or trigger a member sign-in link — both are transactional and go through eusend. The message appears in your eusend dashboard.
Ghost still requires Mailgun specifically for bulk newsletter sending — that
path is separate from transactional mail and is not configurable to other
providers. eusend covers everything under the mail block above.