In this guide, you’ll learn how to connect your Aliyun account to Snov.io using SMTP credentials and server settings.
Snov.io lets you connect your own business or personal mailbox and send email campaigns through your email provider’s servers to have total control over your sender account’s performance.
If you have an email account with Aliyun, you can take advantage of its emailing capabilities and connect it to Snov.io.
The process of connecting involves three primary steps:
1) Getting your Aliyun SMTP credentials
2) Configuring a new email account in Snov.io
3) Configuring optional settings
1) Getting your SMTP credentials
The first step is to obtain the SMTP username and password for your Aliyun account.
The SMTP username should be the login or email address associated with your Aliyun account and is used to authenticate with the SMTP server.
The SMTP password is the password used to log in to your Aliyun account.
2) Configuring a new email account in Snov.io
In the second step, you’ll need to enter your SMTP and IMAP settings on the email account configuration page.
- Go to the Email Accounts page.
This page will display a list of all the email accounts that you have connected to Snov.io.
Start adding your Aliyun account by clicking the Add email account button.
- Choose Aliyun from the email service providers list.
The email account settings page will open.
Note: Please select an appropriate provider so that we can suggest default server settings for you during the setup process.
Snov.io connects to your provider’s SMTP server to send emails to your recipients.
In the SMTP section, enter your SMTP credentials and the provider’s server settings for sending emails.
Refer to the explainer table below for guidance on the information you need to enter in each mandatory * field.
SMTP credentials:
| Field | Explainer |
| (1) From name | This is your sender name.
Enter your name or company name to be displayed in the ‘From’ field when your recipients receive your email. |
| (2) From email | This is the email address you will be sending emails from. Enter your SMTP username here.
When your recipients receive your email, this email address will be displayed in the ‘From’ field. Enable the “Use different account name” box if the SMTP username is different from the ‘From’ email. |
| (3) Password | Enter your SMTP password here (the password to your Aliyun account). |
SMTP server settings:
| Field | Default provider’s value | Explainer |
| (4) Host | smtp.aliyun.com – default for Aliyun accounts | Choose the SMTP host that matches your email account’s default settings. |
| (5) Port | 587 for TLS encryption | Choose the SMTP port that matches your email account’s default settings. |
In the IMAP section, enter the server settings for receiving emails provided by Aliyun.
The IMAP server is responsible for tracking incoming responses and letting Snov.io to log them into the email campaign statistics.
IMAP server settings:
| Field | Default provider’s value | Explainer |
| (1) Host | imap.aliyun.com | Choose the IMAP host that matches your email account’s default settings. |
| (2) Port | 587 for TLS encryption | Choose the IMAP port that matches your email account’s default settings. |
Attention: Adding IMAP settings is optional, but if you don’t add them, your email account will be connected conditionally.
As a result, Snov.io will not be able to track responses to emails sent from this email account and reply statistics may be inaccurate.
Read more about conditional connection here ⇒
Complete your email account setup by testing the connection after entering all required settings.
- Click the Check connection button.
Snov.io will send you the test email with subject “Testing your new email with Snov.io” confirming the successful connection.
3) Optional settings
The following settings are optional and can be skipped for a quicker setup. Configuring them will allow you more control over your account’s performance.
| Setting | Explainer |
| Messages per day | Set a daily sending goal for this email account.
The number should be lower or equal to the provider’s daily limit. Snov.io will stop sending emails for the day after reaching this goal. |
| Delay between emails | Сhoose the interval (fixed or random) in seconds between every email message in your campaigns.
Increasing the time gap between your emails can make your email campaigns appear safer to the ESP. |
Add a signature that will be attached at the end of all emails sent from this email account.
With a custom tracking domain, you can expect up to 20% improvement in deliverability of this sender account.
Start warming up your email account to raise your sender reputation and improve deliverability.
Add your mailbox for a warm-up ⇒
Add your CRM email to forward all emails sent via this email account to your mailbox in the CRM.
After configuring the desired optional settings, click the Add account button to save it.
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After connecting your Aliyun email account to Snov.io, you can select it as a sender for your email campaign.
Have more questions? We’re here to help at help@snov.io or live-support chat.