As soon as you start a new campaign, your emails will automatically be scheduled to be sent as quickly as possible based on the sending window you have set. However, multiple considerations may impact the sending and duration of a campaign.
In this help article, you will learn more about:
Email campaign statuses
When you create an email campaign in Hunter, they will all be visible in the Campaigns section. Each campaign will be listed in order of creation, with the newest one on top. You can see the date of creation, the campaign's performance stats, and the email campaign status.
👉 An email campaign can have different statuses:
Draft: refers to an email campaign that has not been launched yet.
Standby: when there are no further emails to be sent at the moment.
Active: is an email campaign that is active and has scheduled emails to be sent.
Paused: refers to an email campaign that has been manually paused.
Live: a live status means that this specific email campaign is sending right now.
Planned: is an email campaign that has been scheduled to be sent in the future.
Filter your email campaigns by status
To filter your email campaigns by status, simply select the status on the top left side:
Once filtered, only campaigns with the requested status will be displayed. This allows you to have a better overview of your email campaigns.
The daily sending limit
Based on the type of email account you connect to Hunter, you'll have a different daily sending limit:
Type of email account | Daily sending limit |
Google Workspace/Gmail | 400 emails a day per email account |
Outlook/Microsoft | 250 emails a day per email account |
SMTP/IMAP (paid plan) | 250 emails a day per email account |
To limit the risk of being rate-limited by your email provider (in particular, if your email account has been recently created), we have set the default daily sending limit to 15 emails per day.
👉 However, you can increase or decrease this limit at any time from the Email Account Settings in Campaigns.
We recommend increasing the daily sending limit only once you have properly warmed up your email account and started getting high open and reply rates for your email campaigns.
The sending window
Your sending window in Hunter: A narrow window and/or a large delay between emails will increase the duration of your campaign. You can either use the default sending window or override it and use a custom sending window for each campaign, from the settings step of your campaign as well.
Parallel campaigns in Hunter: in Hunter, the oldest pending emails are always sent in priority. This means that if you have multiple active campaigns, the new ones will have to wait for the oldest ones to be completed before they can actually start being processed.
Emails sent outside of Hunter: we don't have control over the volume of emails you send outside Hunter (through Gmail, an email client, or any third party). For this reason, we can't be sure we'll be able to reach the daily limit defined in Hunter.
Gmail and GSuite limits: Google limits the number of emails you can send per day (Learn more).
For this reason, when you launch a campaign, we'll only provide an estimation of the completion time as there's no certain way to predict the exact delivery date of an email.
Finding your queued emails
When an email campaign is actively sending, you can see a Live status update in the Campaigns section:
You can review the Queue section to get a more detailed insight into all your pending messages and the emails that are scheduled to be sent.
Here, you can set different filters, such as filtering by the sender email address, by a specific email campaign name, or by a team member:
The following views will provide you with a breakdown of the pending and scheduled emails.
The Outbox
The emails queuing to be sent in the next 5 minutes are added to the Outbox, and the view is also automatically refreshed.
Scheduled emails
This section lists all the scheduled emails. Based on your sending window, they will be progressively added to the Outbox.
