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# Define An SMTP Server For Customer and Platform Email Delivery

With the 21.8 Release, you can now use a third-party mail server to send emails from Commerce Cloud to your shoppers and site administrators.

Why: Use this feature to manage the commerce cloud emails from any of your existing SMTP mail services.

How: You can set the configuration to use the server for customer and platform email or customer email only.

#### See Also

- [Business Manager Email Configurator](https://documentation.b2c.commercecloud.salesforce.com/DOC2/topic/com.demandware.dochelp/content/b2c_commerce/topics/admin/b2c_business_manager_email_configurator.html)