Archive for April 2010

How to Transfer Your GroupMail Data from Windows XP to Windows 7

Windows 7 is taking the world by storm. As a result, many GroupMail users need to transfer their settings to the new OS. The paths to the GroupMail Data Folders have changed on Windows 7.  Therefore to Move GroupMail from a Windows XP Machine to a Windows 7 Machine, please do the following: Install the [...]

How to Configure GroupMail to Send Through Your AT&T Yahoo SMTP Mail Server

Alright, let’s face it; AT&T certainly complicates email configuration with the variety of SMTP mail servers that they oversee. Whenever a customer calls with a configuration problem and tells me that they are sending through AT&T, I take a deep breath and prepare myself for battle. Some of the SMTP mail servers under the AT&T [...]

How to Send Personalized Email to SMS Text Messages

Sometimes, you want to get your message in front of your customers when they aren’t in front of their computer. GroupMail makes it easy to send personalized email to SMS text messages. See the tutorial below for details. Send Email to SMS Text Messages with GroupMail The GroupMail SMS Add-on is available for GroupMail Business [...]

How to Configure GroupMail to Send Through Your Verizon SMTP Server

Verizon customers can configure GroupMail to send through their Verizon SMTP outgoing mail server. Last time I checked, Verizon has a limit of 500 messages per hour. You should check with them to confirm their current hourly and daily send limitations. Here are the settings to configure GroupMail to send through the Verizon SMTP (outgoing) [...]

How to Configure GroupMail to Send Through Your Gmail SMTP Mail Server

Gmail allows remote access to their SMTP mail server. If you have a Gmail account, you can configure GroupMail to send email through the Gmail SMTP email server. Here are the settings for the Gmail SMTP mail server (outgoing) SMTP Server Address: smtp.gmail.com SMTP Authentication: Yes, use your full Gmail email address and password for [...]

How to Configure GroupMail to Send Through Your Comcast SMTP Server

Comcast allows residential customers to send 1,000 messages per day. Business customers at Comcast can send 24,000 emails per day. Here are the SMTP settings for configuring GroupMail to send through your Comcast SMTP mail server: SMTP Address: smtp.comcast.net SMTP Port Number: 587 (Do NOT check the Server Requires an SSL Connection) SMTP Authentication: Yes, [...]

How to Configure GroupMail to Send Through Your Hotmail SMTP Server

Hotmail now allows free account users to send email through their SMTP server remotely. Of course, as with all free email clients, you will only be able to send so many messages through their server each day. Here are the settings for the Hotmail SMTP mail server: Outgoing Server (SMTP Server): smtp.live.com Outgoing Server SMTP [...]

How to Create Your HTML Email in GroupMail

GroupMail makes it easy to create an HTML email message: You can create a message in GroupMail’s own WYSIWYG HTML message editor. You can use one of our professionally designed and tested HTML email templates You can import an HTML email design that you designed externally and save it as a user-generated template. You can [...]

How to Import Your Gmail Email Addresses into GroupMail

So, all of your contacts are sitting in your Gmail address book and you want to include them in your next email marketing campaign. Here’s how to import your Gmail email addresses into GroupMail. First, you need to export your email addresses from Gmail. You can quickly export your Gmail contacts list into a CSV [...]

How to Import Your Windows Live Contacts into GroupMail

Windows Live does not support direct imports from their contact database. To that end, it is necessary to first export your email contacts from Windows Live and then import them into GroupMail. Here’s how to do it: Log on to your Windows Live Hotmail account. In the left pane, click Contacts. On the Windows Live [...]