Infacta GroupMail 6 - Setup Guide

Important Points

• First you need to make sure the email address you will be sending from has been authorised on your account in our Control Panel.

• Take a note of any settings you change.

• Only change the items specified - you should not need to change your incoming email settings.

• These instructions are only for Infacta GroupMail 6.x - for other email programs please see How To Setup AuthSMTP or contact us.

Start

• Open the GroupMail program

Step 1

• From the main window - select the 'Tools' menu then click 'Account Manager'

Step 2

• Click 'New Account' to create a new account.

Step 3

• Click 'Manual Account Setup' to create a new account
• Click 'Next'

Step 4

• Enter 'AuthSMTP' as a descriptive name for the account
• Enter your name
• Enter your organization name
• Enter your email address (that you will be sending from)
• Enter a reply-to address if it is different from your sender address
• Go to the 'Delivery Options' tab

Step 5

• The 'Delivery Options' drop-down menu should be set to 'Standard'
• Set the SMTP server to 'mail.authsmtp.com'
• Tick 'Requires Authentication'
• Keep all other settings the same
• Click 'Setup'

Step 6

• Tick 'Use SMTP Authentication (outbound)'
• Change 'Type' to 'AUTH CRAM MD5'
• Enter your AuthSMTP username and password
• Click 'OK'

Step 7

• Click 'Advanced'

Step 8

• Change the SMTP port to '2525' (other alternatives are 23, 25, 26, 325, 80)
• Keep all other settings the same
• Click 'OK'

Step 9

• Your SMTP account has now been setup
• Click 'Close'

Finish

• The setup is now finished and you can start sending email
• If you experience any problems please see our SMTP troubleshooting guide