By default, Referral Factory takes care of your email delivery. However, you can send mail through your Gmail SMTP server if you’d rather use your own service.
❗️ Please note that Google has a rate limit of 100 emails per day for emails sent via SMTP.
📌 Not using Gmail as your service provider? Read this instead.
Step 1: Set Your Outbound Email Address
→ Navigate to Settings and click the tab Emails And Domains.
→ Scroll down to Outbound Email Address and set the email address.
❗️ Your outbound email address must match the email address that you add as your mail server (typically, this is the “username” in your SMTP credentials).
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Step 2: Enable IMAP in Gmail
→ From your Gmail account, go to Settings and elect the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" settings.
→ Under the 'IMAP access' section, toggle on the option to "Enable IMAP".
→ Click "Save Changes".
Step 3: Enable 2-Step Verification and Add An App Password
→ From your Gmail, click your profile picture in the top right hand corner and select Manage your Google Account.
→ Go to Security and turn on 2-step verification.
→ Once activated, click on App Passwords and click Create to generate a unique password. This is the password you will use in your SMTP credentials.
Step 4: Enter Your SMTP Credentials in Referral Factory
→ Return to Referral Factory's Settings tab, click Emails and Domains, scroll down to Own Email Server, and click Manage Email.
→ Enter the following details:
Host = smtp.gmail.com / smtp.yourwebsite.com
Port = 587
Username = your full email address e.g. you@gmail.com
Password = the password you generated in Step 3.
Encryption = TLS
→ Click Verify Credentials.
Step 5: Test Your Emails
→ Navigate to the Campaigns tab and click Edit Campaign to enter the campaign builder.
→ From the Email Notifications step, click Send Test Email.
→ Check the email account to which your Referral Factory account is registered for the test email.
