Configure email sending settings

By default, if you have configured the Sitefinity CMS email settings, the Email campaigns module will send notifications using the default notification profile. For more information about configuring Sitefinity CMS email settings, see Configure email settings.

The Email campaigns module relies on the Notification service for sending emails. To use it, you must configure the notification profile that you want to use. There you configure the SMTP server settings and, if you want to send emails in batches, you can set the batch size and the pause interval between batches. For more information, see Configure notification profiles.

If you want to explicitly specify a notification profile for the Email campaigns module, follow these steps:

1. In the main menu, click Administration » Settings » Advanced.
2. In the treeview on the left, click Newsletters
3. In the Notifications SMTP Profile textbox type the name of the notification profile you want to be used to send emails for the Email campaigns module. If you do not fill in a name explicitly, the default notification profile is used.
4. Click Save changes
   

If you have chosen to Track bounced messages, when configuring the Sitefinity CMS email settings or the Notification profile, used by the Email campaigns module, you cna further fine-tune the tracking behavior. Perform the following steps to define the track bounced messages functionality advanced settings:

1. In the main menu, click Administration » Settings » Advanced.
2. In the treeview on the left, click Newsletters
3. In Collect bounces every (minutes), enter the length of interval in minutes that the system will collect bounce messages from the POP3 account.
4. In Collect bounces retry count, enter the number of times that the system will collect bounce messages from the POP3 account.
5. In Bounced messages retry interval, enter the length of interval in minutes that the system will retry to send soft bounced messages.
6. In Bounced messages retry count, enter the number of times that the system will retry to send soft bounced messages.
7. In Disable Sitefinity CMS email headers, select whether you want Sitefinity CMS email headers to be disabled.
8. Click Save changes.