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Elegant Bots allows you to use any email services providers to send emails to your subscribers. Normally email services providers provide a feature called SMTP to let you send email from any platform that offers SMTP integration.
It is easy to let your bot send emails to your customers. Follow this step to set up email connection with your email service provider.
Go to Settings > Email
Then, Choose to send Mail Via SMTP
Choose your email service provider. If it is not listed, choose others.
You will need perform additional action if you are using these email service providers.
Gmail: You need to enable less secure app access to your Google account HERE. If you have 2-factor authentication enabled in your account you need to use an application-specific password. Learn more HERE
Zoho Mail: If you have 2-factor authentication enabled in your account you need to use an application-specific password. Learn more HERE
Before you send an email to a user you need to collect his email and the person needs to give you consent to send an email.
Now every user has a field called “Email” that is used for Email marketing. You can ask your users their email address with “User Input” block and save the user email in the “Email” field.
To save the user consent to send Emails, you need to use the “Set Email Opt-In” action. You can find this action in the “Actions” block. We advise you to use this action when the user presses a button to give consent. Your Email will not be sent if you do not set the user consent using the “Set Email Opt-In”.
We created a flow to ask the user’s email address and consent. You can get the flow now for free here.
You need to use the email step to email to your subscribers. You will find the email step by clicking on the big “+”.
That’s it! Enjoy…