Email campaigns settings

Use this procedure to configure email setting – SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The settings are needed for the system to send emails with campaigns to subscribers.

You configure SMTP settings in the following way:

1. In the main menu, click Administration » Settings.
   The Basic Settings page appears.
2. Click Email Campaigns.
   The SMTP settings appear.
3. Configure the following properties:

   Host	Enter the name or IP address of the host used for SMTP transactions.
   Port	Enter the port used for SMTP transactions.
   Use SMTP authentication	Select if you want to authenticate when you login to the server. If you select this checkbox the following fields appear: Username Enter the user name of the account that you use to connect to the SMTP server Password Enter the password of the account that you use to connect to the SMTP server Use SMTP SSL Select if you want Sitefinity to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the connection.

4. You can test the setting by sending a test email.
   To do this, enter the test email in Email field and click Send test message.
5. If you want to track messages that are not delivered to the subscribers, select Track bounced messages checkbox.
6. Enter the host of the POP3 server.
7. Enter the port used by the server.
8. Enter the user name of the account that you use to connect to the mail server.
9. Enter the password of the account that you use to connect to the mail server.
10. Select if you want to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the connection.
11. Choose what to do with subscribers, to whom the email campaign was not delivered. 
12. For each reason, select one of the following:
    • Do nothing
    • Suspend subscriber
      Next time the email campaign will not be delivered to this subscriber.
    • Delete subscriber
      The subscriber is deleted from the list of subscribers.
13. When finished, click Save changes.