This help article covers the required permissions when connecting a new email account in Hunter Campaigns.
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Hunter supports three different types of email account connections:

When you connect your email account, Hunter will send emails on your behalf using your email account’s server, not Hunter’s.

This integration allows Hunter Campaigns to access your account, send and read emails, and track interactions like opens and replies. The secure OAuth process keeps your login details private and ensures they are never shared with third parties. We also protect your data by encrypting it with AES-256-CBC.

OAuth lets you sign in to third-party websites or apps using your credentials from services like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Twitter, without needing to create a new account.

OAuth uses tokens instead of passwords, keeping your login details secure. The exchange between Hunter and the authorization server happens over HTTPS, ensuring your data is encrypted.

Hunter can only access the information you’ve granted permission for—nothing more.

When you connect your Gmail/Google Workspace account through Google Sign-in, you are first asked to enter your credentials and allow Hunter access to your name, email address, profile picture, and language preferences. This process is completely protected by OAuth, and Hunter can only access the information that has been granted permission.

We've implemented the latest OAuth granular consent as requested by Google for all third-party apps (starting from June 14, 2024).

After signing in to Hunter, you are requested to provide Hunter access to your account to ensure it can be used to send emails.

Take a look at our Privacy policy and our Terms of Service for more details.

All the information we ask you to access is necessary to get access to your email account, schedule and manage your email campaigns, and nothing more. If you want to learn how we treat and store your data, you can find more about this in our Data Processing Agreement.

Hunter will request access to the necessary permission to send emails using your connected email account, detect replies and provide them in Hunter's Inbox. These are:

View your email messages and settings

Manage drafts and send emails:

Associate you with your personal info on Google

See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available

ℹ️ Only your full name and profile picture are used by Hunter to ensure the sender name and profile picture match the one you have for your Gmail/Google Workspace account. The other information (gender, preferred languages and other info) aren't used by Hunter.

See your primary Google Account email address

When you connect your Outlook/Microsoft email account through OAuth to send email campaigns through Hunter, similar to the Google account connection, we request access to your profile data and permissions to manage and send emails on your behalf. By accepting these permissions, you grant Hunter access to:

If you are on a paid plan, you can connect your email account through an SMTP/IMAP connection.

To use this functionality, Hunter needs access to your email servers:

To allow Hunter access to these servers, you will first have to establish a connection using your email account credentials (the email address you wish to connect to and the associated password). This allows us to establish a connection between your email service provider and Hunter.

Your data and credentials are protected and encrypted using AES-256-CBC, a widely employed encryption algorithm in numerous applications for ensuring secure data transmission and storage. For more details, see our Security Policy.

At this point, the application will automatically retrieve your server settings if possible. Otherwise, should we fail to retrieve this information, you will be asked to configure your incoming and outgoing servers and ports, to allow Hunter access to your mailbox.

To connect your email account with the right server settings, please visit your email provider's Help Center.

Once a connection is established, Hunter gains access to your mailbox to send and read emails. We utilize SMTP to deliver outgoing emails and store them in the Sent folder.

When checking for incoming emails, our focus is solely on those associated with messages sent from Hunter, to allow us to retrieve status updates such as replies, bounces, or opens.

The SMTP/IMAP connection utilizes TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer) or STARTTLS (Start Transport Layer Security) protocols to ensure a secure communication channel.

We prohibit using non-encrypted connections to ensure that all the data exchanged between Hunter and your email server is consistently encrypted, to protect sensitive information, such as email content, login credentials, and other personal data, from unauthorized access or interception by third parties.

We support both SSL and STARTTLS encryption protocols to enhance security and ensure compatibility across different email servers. Upon linking your email account, our system automatically determines the appropriate protection type based on your server's port configuration.

Should automatic detection fail, you'll need to select the correct protocol manually. At that point, Hunter will be able to retrieve the correct associated SMTP Server Port automatically.