With LeadDyno you can set up your own mail server to send Automated Affiliate Emails. By default, all emails are sent with LeadDyno as the sender, in the leaddyno.com/leaddynomail.com format. If you want to use your own domain instead, it requires setting up custom SMTP.
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The main requirement for sending emails with your own domain is using a transactional email provider. The process involves signing up for an account with someone like sendgrid.com or mailgun.com, verifying your email/domain settings, and then obtaining the SMTP credentials and adding them to your LeadDyno account.
- SMTP Server: The server address needs to be in a format similar to this - smtp.mailgun.org (required)
- SMTP Username: This is generated by your mail provider, and is different from your login/account credentials. The SMTP username from Mailgun will look similar to this - postmaster@sandboxa77ba*********************3372e9.mailgun.org (required).
- SMTP Password: Password for the username above, not to be confused with the account password (required)
- Domain: The domain will be the same domain as the username will have (required)
- Enable SSL: Some SMTP providers will require you to enable SSL Encryption. This depends mostly on the provider, and it will be specified in the SMTP Settings. (optional)
- SMTP Port (default is 587): You can leave this section blank since the default port is 587. (optional)
- Affiliate Wrapped User (Advanced): In this section, you will add the user of the email you are setting up. By default, the value here will be 'info' so the emails will be sent from info@mydomain.com.
If you use Sendgrid:
- SMTP Server: The server address needs to be in a format similar to this - smtp.sendgrid.net (required)
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SMTP Username: Set your username to the string
apikey. This setting is the exact string "apikey" and not the API key itself (required). - SMTP Password: Set your password to the API key generated in step one (required)
- STMP Port (default is 587): You can leave this section blank since the default port is 587. (optional)
After all required fields are filled in, select the 'Save SMTP Settings' button and all emails will be sent with your custom domain.
Once that's done, you'll be done!
Testing
To test everything out, you will need to send an automated affiliate email. For example, you can sign up as a new affiliate if you have the 'New Sign-up' email enabled.
Setting up SMTP with Google
If you would like to use Google in order to set up SMTP for your LeadDyno account, the first required step is to create an in-app password for your Google email address named "LeadDyno". This can be done as explained in Google's guide here.
Then, once you have created the "LeadDyno" in-app password, the following credentials need to be added to the Account - Email Preferences section of your account:
- SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com.
- SMTP Username: your Google email address (example: alex@leaddyno.com).
- SMTP Password: here, you will need to add the "LeadDyno" in-app password you generated on Google's side.
- Domain: here, you will add the domain used for your SMTP Username (example: leaddyno.com).
- Enable SSL: disabled.
- SMTP Port: 587.
- SMTP Authentication: plain.
- Affiliate Wrapped User: you only need to fill this if you wish to send the automated emails using a different email name (for example, if my email is alex@leaddyno.com, but I wish to send the emails from support@leaddyno.com, I will add "support" here).