List Management

Import subscribers from email account

Importing subscribers

In Maxmail you can import your subscribers in several different ways in bulk.

• Import using CSV file
• Import using an Access Database file (.mdb only)
• Import from an email account (such as Gmail)

Import contacts from your email account

Another nifty way to import contacts in Maxmail is from your IMAP compatible email account.

All you have to do is provide your IMAP email address and password and Maxmail will attampt to import all contacts you have sent emails to or received emails from and give you the option to choose which email addresses get imported into the list.

Note:

Currently Hotmail email accounts are not supported due to Hotmail's incompatiblity with the IMAP protocol.

Your email address and password information is NOT stored on Maxmail and is destroyed after the import process is complete.

The process of importing contacts using email accounts works on freemail addresses such as Yahoo, Gmail, Mail.com, AOL and all private mailboxes that have IMAP protocol enabled in their MX settings.

When importing contacts using this feature, for most cases, you will never have to specify your mail server settings as Maxmail will attempt to automatically figure that out.

In some cases you might be required to provide advanced mail setting information such as incoming mail server, server port and authentication type for Maxmail to appropriately establish connection with your mail server and go through the import process.

After you have gone through and imported the contacts you wanted to import, the list is put through our standard post import procedures before you can send a campaign to this list.

Simple steps to Import contacts from your email account

1. Click on the manage Subscribers Tab
2. Select the list that you wish to add you new contacts to (single click on list, so that stats window opens)
3. Click on the ‘Add New Subscribers’ link
4. Click on the ‘Import from Email’ button
5. Enter the email address of the account that you wish to extract the email addresses from
6. Enter the account password
7. Click ‘Go’ Button
8. Select the folders from where Maxmail is to extract the emails
9. Select the ‘sent to you’, ‘you send mai to’ and ‘cc’ options
10. Click on the ‘Import’ button

Post Import Process

After importing contacts into a list (regardless of the import option used), each list is put through a set of processes to ensure the list is clean and good for use in a campaign. The following is a breakdown of the individual processes the list is put through.

List Cleaning

Post import, every list goes through Maxmail's built in cleaning process which is the second generation of the Predictive Bounceback Handler you may have encountered in Maxmail 3. During this process Maxmail will automatically delete any blank records and flag invalid email addresses for your review.

One of the most common reasons for email addresses to be marked invalid is poorly formatted email addresses or addresses that contain typos. Hence, for most common typos, Maxmail attempts to automatically fix these for you.

However, in cases where we acquire reasons to believe that the email address being checked does not exist or is not currently active, we will mark those as invalid as well.

If the total number of invalid addresses in a list is greater than a certain threshold, then you will be required to manually verify those records before you can use the list in any campaigns.

Duplicate Checking

When importing records, Maxmail requires you to verify whether or not the data being imported is mainly to do with email addresses or mobile numbers. We ask this question to configure our duplicate checking process which uses either email addresses or mobile numbers as the unique identifier.

If duplicates are found the list is automatically locked down with a red flag until you manually decide what you wish to do with the duplicate records.

You can process duplicate records in one of two ways.

You can either tell Maxmail to keep only one instance of the record and delete all others with no bias toward any one occurance of the record.

or

You can merge duplicate records based on certain criterion being met.

When merging duplicate records you will be asked to select one of the instances of the duplicate records to be a master. All other instances of the duplicate record are then merged into the master.