Using Custom SMTP - Video Guide

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In this video, I will show you how you can use custom SMTPs with your VBout account

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Once you've installed the add-on, you can see on the top right under settings a new menu appear called custom SMTP

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Navigate your way there and you will notice an add custom SMTP option

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I already configured one so I can show you how it works

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It is with SparkPost

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It has the details here

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I'm not using SMTP credentials but instead I'm using an API key which is a little bit more powerful

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It offers more options and faster sending

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I have two sub accounts under me because I am an agency that are using this SMTP pool and it is active

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Now VBout allows you to configure multiple SMTPs

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So I'm going to go ahead and click on add custom SMTP

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I'm going to give it a name and this name is for your own reference so I can say this is send grid

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And from the drop-down you'll notice I have some pre-configured options

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SparkPost send grid and soon I'll have Amazon SES and then custom

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So you don't have to only use those providers

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It can be literally anything

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The only difference if you use these providers is we will provide a faster sending through API queuing

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We will also provide a little more detailed tracking in terms of bounce backs, return bounce codes and other tracking options

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We will still track open rates and click throughs whichever option that you choose but with those SparkPost send grid and Amazon will have more analytics for you

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I will choose send grid and I'll have two ways to authenticate

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One of them is to use SMTP credentials or the other option which is a little bit more as I said powerful is the API key option

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And if you use send grid you'll know how to generate an API key

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I've already generated one for speed of this demo

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I'm going to paste it here and this email is just for testing

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You can change this to anything that you want

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And submit

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Here we go

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Now I have send grid added

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I have SparkPost

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I have two different pools and you can keep on adding as many as you want

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The default one is SparkPost and I have two accounts under me using it whereas send grid I don't have any sub accounts

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So you can see here I am actually defaulting my account to one SMTP while maybe I'm provisioning another and perhaps I want to create different sending services for different accounts

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But if you're an agency this is a function for you

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On the right side you'll see which are the assigned accounts

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In this case I'll have all my sub accounts as an agency

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So let's say I want to have this account using this pool and now I have one under me

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Very easy

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If I want to change and make send grid as a default all I got to do is just click on set as default on the account and that should be good to go

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You see those two options

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Set it on my own account and set it for my agency sub accounts in general

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So if you want any of them to be the default you can go ahead and click that

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In the future if you add other accounts they will automatically be using that pool

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So this is it

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I will summarize real quick

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One you can add multiple SMTP pools and SMTP accounts to VBOT

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You can choose which one is the default for you or what is the default for you and your sub accounts if and only if you're an agency

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You have the ability to set which sub account is using which pool

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If you use any of the predefined services you'll have more in depth tracking whereas if you use custom you might lose some of those bounce back tracking that we offer

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So this is it guys

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Very powerful feature

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Well requested

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I hope you enjoy it and thank you

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