The SMTP+ option, currently available in Beta version, allows you to send a great number of email messages from your usual email client, taking advantage of the sending and tracking features provided by the MailUp system.
This way, your mailings can have high deliverability rates guaranteed by your client, and you have the freedom to schedule them according to your needs, for quick and safe deliveries.
There's more: you can setup and customize the notifications that you (or other users) want to receive with regard to events occurring inside the admin console, e.g. error messages or delivery time limit being exceeded.
The SMTP+ service is free of charge, because it shares the sending queue and the bandwidth that you already purchased for your account.
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What SMTP+ is and when to use it
SMTP+ is a SMTP relay service built into your MailUp account. What this means is that you can now use MailUp not just to create and send email marketing campaigns and triggered messages, but also to send transactional, and personal emails. For example:
- You can configure your ecommerce store to use SMTP+ as the SMTP server to send transactional messages from the online store
- You can set your WordPress blog to do the same
- You can configure your email client (e.g. Outlook) to send messages through SMTP+
The main advantages of using a service like SMTP+ are higher deliverability and tracking. Let's take a closer look...
Higher deliverability
All emails will now go through MailUp, leveraging the system's high deliverability. Take an ecommerce Web site, for example. It typically sends emails through the Web hosting company's SMTP server. That server, however, may be used by companies that do not follow email marketing best practices, and might therefore suffer from a low reputation, with the result that emails end up in the Junk folder. Important messages such as an Order Confirmation message may never be seen by the customer. By switching to SMTP+, that online store will no longer be sending messages through the Web hosting company's SMTP server, but rather through MailUp, enjoying much higher deliverability.
Tracking
Messages sent through SMTP+ are tracked. You can tell the system how to aggregate messages (e.g. based on the date, the message subject, the sender, etc.) and see
Other information
- Beta: SMTP+ is currently in Beta (as of December, 2012). We plan on removing the "Beta" label in the first quarter of 2013.
- Pricing: SMTP+ is part of your MailUp account. There are no additional fees.
Using SMTP+
Please refer to the following pages for the details on how to:
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- Configure SMTP+ feature, servers and users
- set Set the properties for the messages sent using the SMTP+ feature
- decide Decide how to aggregate the data related to SMTP+ messages for statistical purposes
- set Set and customize the notifications alerts sent by the SMTP+ feature to your users
- view View the send status of SMTP+ messages
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Configuring applications and email clients to use SMTP+
- Outlook
- WordPress
- /wiki/spaces/mailupUserGuide/pages/36503987