Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Setup Tutorial
Following are the steps required to connect your Ongage OCI vendor connection to your Oracle Cloud SMTP account.
In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Login to your Oracle Cloud account > Enter your Cloud Account Name:
Enter your username and password
Set User Permission
⚠️ To ensure optimal security, it is advisable to establish a specific user within your Tenancy and provide the following information through that user.
⚠️Make sure this user is part of a group and the group has the Following policies assigned to it:
Allow group [GroupName] to manage email-family in tenancy
Allow group [GroupName] to read log-content in tenancy
Allow group [GroupName] to manage log-groups in tenancy
Allow group [GroupName] to read metrics in tenancy
Allow group [GroupName] to inspect metrics in tenancy
Allow group [GroupName] to read resource-availability in tenancy
Allow group [GroupName] to read audit-events in tenancy
This ensures all Email Delivery aspects are covered, Deliverability Dashboard, and API calls (to verify credentials).
In Ongage
Create a new ‘Oracle Cloud Interface’ vendor connection in Ongage.
In that connection, enter From/Reply Addresses and From Name.
API credentials: Get the API credentials from your Oracle account, and enter them into the Ongage OCI connection.
Host & SMTP host - City can be found in the Oracle email configuration URL HERE or in the upper menu bar or under "Public Endpoint"
Pem - Click on "Add API keys" and "download private key" > Copy content to the ‘pem’ field. Link to the page HERE
Return path - Approved From/Reply Address as shown HERE
Tenancy - Copy the value of the ‘OCID’ field under Tenancy Information and insert to the Tenancy field in Ongage
SMTP User/SMTP Password - Use your existing username and password or generate a new set in:
API User - Copy ‘OCID’ value from
Configure X-CONTENT-ID header in Oracle:
To configure X-CONTENT-ID header, please Contact Oracle support and request to configure X-CONTENT-ID header in your Tenancy.
The support request to configure the X-CONTENT-ID should include:
a. Request to create custom header: X-CONTENT-ID for the sending domains listed below.
b. The tenancy OCID.
c. OCI Region.
d. Sending Domain OCID(s).
e. OCI console -> navigate to Email delivery service -> select email domains -> select domain -> copy OCID