# Office 365 SMTP settings

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/office-365-smtp-settings/40400
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [March 1, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/office-365-smtp-settings/40400 "2016-03-01T17:35:15Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/office-365-smtp-settings/40400/2 "2016-03-01T20:57:20Z")

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Are you sure the terms of service for office 365 allow this? Discourse can send potentially thousands of emails per hour on a busy instance.

For example, using Gmail for your outgoing Discourse mail service is _absolutely_ prohibited by the Gmail terms of service. I would be quite shocked if this was not also the case for Outlook / Hotmail / Office365.

(For incoming mails, e.g. reply-by-mail it’s less of a big deal since the volumes are so low.)

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