How to connect Microsoft Outlook/Exchange accounts to Mailarrow
This guide explains how to link your Outlook/Exchange email accounts to Mailarrow using OAuth. In Mailarrow, you can link your personal email account and conduct email campaigns using your email provider's servers. Follow these steps to add your Microsoft Outlook or Exchange email account:
1) Add email account
- Open Email Accounts tab
- Click the Connect New Mailbox button
- Choose Office 365 Mail from list
2) Sign in to your Microsoft account and allow permissions
A Microsoft OAuth authentication page will appear. Just log in to your Outlook or Exchange account and grant Mailarrow the required permissions to connect with your account.
Mailarrow needs access to your mailbox to send emails on your behalf and provide statistics for your email campaigns. To grant these permissions, click "Yes" on the next screen.
3) Configure optional settings and Save
After successfully authorizing, you'll go to the Email account settings page. Here, you can customize settings for your email account to improve its performance and management. Don't forget to click the "Save" button after configuring the required optional settings.
Additional security settings in case of connection error
If you face a connection error after saving the settings, you may need to enable the Authenticated SMTP parameter in your Outlook to resolve the issue. To do this for the specific mailbox you want to connect to Mailarrow, follow these steps:
- Open the Microsoft 365 admin center and navigate to Users → Active users.
- Choose the mailbox you want to connect to Mailarrow and click on the Mail tab.
- In the Email apps section, click on Manage email apps.
- Look for the Authenticated SMTP setting and check the box next to it to enable it.
- Finally, click on Save changes to save the updated settings.