HI John,
In Odoo default we have a mail configuration that were located in the menu path Settings --> Technical --> Email --> Outgoing Mail Servers.
In that there is connection information that we have to give SMTP Server and SMTP Port and if mail server have authentication means we have to give Connection Security and the corresponding Username and Password to give.
Then After finally we have to Test Connection to check the server name and port is correct or not. If Connection Success means every thing is fine if connection not success means then you have to check the server name and the port number is correct nor not.