Configuring Bromcom Finance to send purchase orders by email

Prerequisites – Please ensure you have configured email for the Bromcom MIS system as per instructions in the following guide. Sending emails from your school email address in Bromcom – Frequently Asked Questions To enable Bromcom Finance module to send emails for BACS and purchase orders, you need to complete the following steps: Browse to…

Checking your SPF Record

When configuring an email application to use the Scomis/SWGfL Smart hosts, it is essential that you check that your Domain SPF Record allows Scomis to send email on behalf of your email domain. SPF, or Sender Protection Framework, as a system that prevents unauthorised computers from sending email from your internet domain name.  This significantly…

Setting up Outlook for RM Easymail users

If a school uses the South West Grid for Learning / RM for their email provider (RM Easymail) then it is possible to link these accounts with Microsoft Outlook. For the different versions of Microsoft Outlook please view the following connection settings and instructions on how to set this up: Microsoft Outlook 2013 Open Microsoft Outlook, click the File…

Mcafee Antivirus blocking sent emails within Outlook

There is occasionally an issue where users who have McAfee Antivirus are unable to send emails through Outlook. When you try to test the server settings and see why it is failing you will be presented with an error saying that Outlook has “Failed to access the outgoing SMTP server”. The text in the error…