Creating a SendGrid account

Perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Azure Management portal and create a SendGrid Email Delivery account by searching for it in the Marketplace, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. In the SendGrid Email Delivery blade, click on the Create button to navigate to Create a New SendGrid Account. Select free in the Pricing tier options, provide all of the other details, and then click on the Create button, as shown in the following screenshot:
At the time of writing, the Send Grid free account allows us to send 25,000 free emails per month. If you would like to send more emails, then you can get a Silver S2-level account, where you would have 100,000 emails per month.
  1. Once the account is created successfully, navigate to SendGrid Accounts. You can use the search box available on the top, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Navigate to Settings, choose Configurations, and grab the USERNAME and SMTP SERVER from the Configurations blade, as shown in the following screenshot: