Email messaging quickstart - XBOX Game Development Documentation

To send emails from PlayFab, you will need to have your own external SMTP server with a username and password. Once you have an SMTP server available, check out Setting up an SMTP server with add-ons to configure your title to send emails.

You can use Gmail as an SMTP server for testing - but with Gmail, you are limited to 2,000 emails per day.

Once your SMTP Server is set up and configured in PlayFab, you can follow our tutorials for Using a rule to verify a contact email address or Using email templates You can also use the following APIs to manage player contact information and email functionality:

AddorUpdateContactEmail - Updates or adds a contact email to the player’s profile.
RemoveContactEmail - Deletes a contact email from the player’s profile.
SendEmailFromTemplate - Sends a template email to a player’s primary contact email.
SendAccountRecoveryEmail - Sends an Account Recovery email to the specified player.
ResetPassword - Resets the player’s password for a given title.
GetPlayerIdFromAuthToken - Gets a player’s ID from an authorization token.

Last modified on August 4, 2026

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