Connect Gmail SMTP to Your Contact Form

By default, FormBridge sends notification and autoresponder emails from its own sender address. That's fine for getting started, but it can look impersonal, and some recipients are more likely to open an email from a real, recognizable address than a generic one. Connecting Gmail fixes that.

Step 1: Generate a Gmail app password

Google requires 2-Step Verification to be turned on before it will issue app passwords, so:

1. Go to your Google Account → Security and enable 2-Step Verification if it isn't already on.
2. Under the same Security section, search for App Passwords.
3. Create a new one, label it something like "FormBridge," and copy the 16-character password Google generates. You won't be able to view it again after you close the screen.

This works the same way for a personal Gmail address or a Google Workspace address on your own domain.

Step 2: Add Gmail as a custom SMTP server in FormBridge

In your FormBridge dashboard, go to Account → SMTP Configurations → + Add SMTP Server and fill in:

• SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com
• Port: 587
• Encryption: TLS
• Username: your full Gmail address
• Password: the app password from Step 1
• From name: whatever you want recipients to see, e.g. your company name

Click Test SMTP before saving to confirm the credentials work.

Step 3: Assign it to a form

Each SMTP account can be assigned to one or more forms, but a form only ever sends through one account — assigning a new one moves it off any previous account. After assigning Gmail, open that form's own Email Settings and make sure a notification email is set; custom SMTP delivery won't take effect without it.

A note on volume

Gmail is built for personal and small-business mail, not bulk sending. It works well for a contact form on a portfolio site, a small business, or a low-traffic SaaS landing page, but Google enforces daily sending limits that are noticeably lower than a dedicated transactional provider. If your form regularly gets dozens of submissions a day rather than a handful, a provider built for transactional email — like Postmark, SES, or Resend — is a safer long-term choice.