We have already taken a look at how you can [send email with OctoberCMS](https://watch-learn.com/making-websites-with-october-cms/making-websites-with-october-cms-part-18-creating-contact-form), but in that episode we fumbled around with Gmails SMTP service, and a lot of you reported that that approach is not the best and that it didn't always work.

So in this episode I'm going to show you how to use Mailgun service with October CMS, to make sending your emails, even from your local environment super easy.

We are also going to take a look at how to change default email templates, and how to create your own.

In this quick episode of OctoberCMS tips we are going to take a look at how you can use Mailgun to send emails from your local environment, and also where and how you can change email templates that are sent to your users.

Email, Mailgun, Templates

Although this episode seems long, it will actually take about 10 minutes to create contact form for your site if you know what you are doing. To follow along with this video it will probably be good idea to check out [previous](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/making-websites-with-october-cms-part-16-creating-a-simple-component), [two](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/making-websites-with-october-cms-part-17-adding-options-to-components) videos where I talk about setting up components. Because in this episode we are actually going to create contact form component for October CMS that you can reuse on any of your pages.

Also in this episode I'm going to show you how to set up Google's smtp service so that you can send email from your app while developing.

In this episode I'm going to show you how to create a simple contact form component for your October CMS website. And also how to use SMTP service from Google to send emails while developing your site.