Custom SMTP integration

SMTP warmup for any mailbox.

If your provider speaks SMTP and IMAP, MailStrike can warm it. Add your server details once and the mailbox warms like any other.

app.mailstrike.ai / onboarding / connect
The MailStrike connect step: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and custom SMTP as three choices

Connected in three steps.

Yahoo, Proton, Zoho, Fastmail, or your own server. If it speaks SMTP and IMAP, it works.

Step 01

Add your SMTP details

Enter your SMTP server, port, and credentials. An app password works great. MailStrike tests the connection, then uses IMAP to manage warming traffic in a dedicated folder.

  • Works with any SMTP / IMAP provider
  • App passwords fully supported
  • Connection tested before warming starts
mailstrike.ai / connect

SMTP / IMAP details

Connection OK
Connect
Step 02

Authentication checked on connect

SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MX are read the moment the connection lands, and a missing record comes back with the exact value to publish.

  • SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MX verified
  • Plain-English fixes for any gaps
mailstrike.ai / setup

Authentication check

All passing
SPFv=spf1 include:_spf… ~allPassed
DKIMselector._domainkey · 2048-bitPassed
DMARCp=quarantine · rua setPassed
MXRouted correctlyPassed
Step 03

Warming starts

Your AI Agent starts exchanging mail with the MailStrike network the same day. The dashboard tracks every open, reply, and rescue and tells you when the mailbox is safe to send from, which is the day it starts earning its seat.

mailstrike.ai / dashboard
The MailStrike dashboard showing inbox reputation, active mailboxes, daily send volume, a 90-day inbox-placement trend climbing past 90%, and a live activity feed of warming engagement
Hidden by default

Keep warming out of your inbox

Choose Inbox visibility when you connect, and change it anytime in Settings. On Hidden (the default), every warming email is auto-labeled and archived the instant it arrives, so your real inbox stays exactly as it was.

Inbox visibility

Hidden moves warming mail to a label/folder so it doesn't clutter your real inbox.

Hidden

Recommended, clean inbox

Visible

Show warming mail in your inbox

Every thread the agents exchange is written fresh and grounded in your business, never templated. See how warming works, or what it means that it runs alongside the tools you already send with.

The ramp, for any mailbox. 21 days to full volume.

A mailbox connected over SMTP and IMAP warms on the same schedule as one connected over OAuth: low on day one, a steady climb to the plan default of 30 a day, maintenance after. Pick the provider closest to yours, the domain's age and the target to see it.

Warming a day, per mailboxMailStrike's guidance
Outreach a day, per mailbox1 mailbox2 mailboxes3 or more
Not sending yet302118
10 emails302118
20 emails251815
30 emails201412
40 emails15119
50 emails1076

The rule behind the table: a mailbox on its own that is not sending yet warms at the plan default of 30 a day, and once outreach starts it drops one warming email for every two you send, down to a floor of 10. Put a second mailbox on the domain and each one needs 70% of that figure, three or more and each needs 60%, because the domain earns the signal across all of them. Volume is a setting per mailbox, so you can dial these in directly.

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Warm any mailbox, land in the inbox.

Three weeks to a mailbox you can send from at volume, instead of months of a seat you cannot use.