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IMAP makes emails truly accessible. It allows you to access your email account from anywhere and from any device.
When you use IMAP to read an email, it neither downloads the email, nor it gets stored on your computer. Instead, you are only reading your email directly using your ESP or email service provider. That’s why you can check your email from anywhere in the world: your computer, a tablet, your mobile, or a friend’s computer.
However, you can download an email using IMAP as well. You need to click on the message to download it, however, it doesn't automatically download the attachments. This is why IMAP operates way faster than POP.
Office 365 accounts offer email clients for accessing your Office 365 email account using IMAP. Here are the email settings you need to set up an Office 365 account using IMAP:
Email Server: outlook.office365.com
Port: 993
Encryption Method: SSL/TLS
Server: imap-mail.outlook.com
Port: 993
Encryption: SSL/TLS
Your Outlook.com account connection might show email error codes (basic authentication error) if you configure your account as IMAP in various email clients. Although Microsoft is working on to fix the inconvenience, you may try this method to solve the issue:
This article on ‘What is the Recent Activity Page?’ will give you a detailed understanding on how you can fix the issue.
Active leads are the contacts you upload in Smartlead, similar to contacts in HubSpot; if you upload 1000 leads to a campaign, they are considered 1000 active leads. If you upload similar leads to a new campaign, they are not considered a “new active lead” as they already exist in our system.
We don’t offer mailboxes yet. You need to get your own dedicated list of mailboxes using popular providers like Gmail, Outlook, Zoho, and others that exist in the market. Once you get them, follow our detailed guides to connect them quickly.
Absolutely, one of our most popular guides can be found right here. It's been used by a large percentage of users to go from zero to cold emailing experts. Covering all topics from email infrastructure to copywriting and lead sourcing.
No, Smartlead has over 200,000 highly reputed mailboxes connected. The advantage you get along with naturalized AI conversations is access to aged domains you will never find in any warmup tool.
It is used popularly by agencies to automate their entire lead generation process as well as to connect Smartlead to external tools to push and pull data from. You can also connect to 1000s of apps using Zapier.
Anyone that can close deals from demos will succeed with Smartlead. It works for Sales companies, Marketing agencies, SaaS businesses, Recruitment, and offline companies (like construction).
We do not provide you with leads. You will need to use other data providers. These leads can be automatically added to Smartlead using our API or bulk uploaded via our CSV upload system.
We're building native integrations with Hubspot, Salesforce, Close, Pipedrive, and many more. The best part, due to our open API and Webhook infrastructure, you can connect to any CRM in the world without an issue.
You can add an unlimited number of team members, as well as assign them roles and authority access.
Yes, it's common for many people to move to Custom plans after a few weeks. You can view all the options for up to 10M leads on the subscription page once you sign up for free.