In this help article, we'll cover the required permissions when connecting a new email account in Hunter Campaigns. You can connect from 1 to 20 email accounts based on the plan you're currently on.
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Hunter supports three different types of email account connections:

When you connect your email account, Hunter will schedule and send emails on your behalf through your connected email account. This means the emails will be sent through your email client's server, not Hunter's.

This integration enables Hunter Campaigns to access your account, allowing it to send and read emails, and track interactions, such as opens and replies. The secure OAuth authentication process safeguards your privacy, ensuring your login credentials remain confidential and never disclosed to third parties. Additionally, we ensure the security of your data and credentials by encrypting them with AES-256-CBC.

OAuth (Open Authorization) is commonly used to allow users to sign in to third-party websites or applications using their credentials from a service like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Twitter, without having to create a new account specifically for that third-party service.

OAuth operates by utilizing tokens rather than direct login credentials, bypassing the need to expose passwords. These tokens act as a secure key and the exchange between Hunter and the authorization server is conducted over HTTPS, ensuring that the data is encrypted during transit.

Remember that Hunter can only access the information that has been explicitly granted permission, and nothing beyond that.

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, your email address, your profile picture and your language preferences, this process is completely protected by OAuth and Hunter can only access the information that has been granted permission to.

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.

Once you have agreed to share your credentials, such as your email address, full name and profile picture (all used to send emails on your behalf with your original settings), we need to get access to your emails and drafts for sending, such as:

View your email messages and settings

Manage drafts and send emails:

Once you have allowed us access, Hunter can access your mailbox and manage emails for you. Remember, you can remove this connection anytime directly from your Google Account.

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, check the guides in your Email Service provider's Help Center.

Once a connection is established, Hunter gains access to your mailbox for both sending and reading 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 the use of non-encrypted connections to make sure 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.

To enhance security and ensure compatibility across different email servers, we support both SSL and STARTTLS encryption protocols. 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.