How To Set Up Your Own Email Server Using Outlook

By default, Referral Factory takes care of your email delivery. However, you can send mail through your Outlook SMTP server if you’d rather use your own service.

📌 Not using Outlook 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: Enter Your SMTP Credentials

→ Scroll down to Own Email Server and click Manage Email. 

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→ Enter the following details:

Host = smtp.office365.com

Port = 587

Username = your full email address e.g. you@outlook.com

Password = the password you use to sign into Outlook 

Encryption = TLS

→ Click Verify Credentials. 

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Step 3: 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.

 

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