Configuring your email account

Configuring your email account allows you to work on both aNinja and your email account in total synchronization.

aNinja was designed to offer two-way email integration. This means, when you send emails from aNinja, the system automatically logs them in the sent folders of both aNinja and your email account (Gmail or your mobile phone).

Benefits of email configuration

  • By connecting your email account with aNinja, aNinja begins to automatically track the email actions with any contacts between aNinja and your email account.configuring your email account
  • You can work from either aNinja Inbox or your email account. And the changes transmit between the two. So you don’t waste time seeing emails again in one place that you’ve handled in another.
  • When sending emails through your email client (ex: Outlook, Gmail…) there’s no need to BCC aNinja. The emails automatically show up in your aNinja account in the history of the matching leads.
  • Received emails also show in the inbox of aNinja and your email account.
    • However, if you receive an email and the sender’s email is not saved in aNinja, this email appears only in the email client and does not show in aNinja.
    • Basically, we don’t automatically create a lead for the incoming email if the email address is not saved in your system.

  • aNinja automatically syncs all email communications that you initiate with any contact in aNinja.

Need help configuring your email account? Leave us an email at support@aninja.com. We will happily assist you!

IMAP vs POP3

IMAP vs POP3: These are 2 different methods to access mail from a third-party email client or software.

When setting up a mail client such as Microsoft Outlook, Mac Mail, iPhone, or Android, you will need either enter POP or IMAP server settings.

POP3 (Post Office Protocol)

POP (Post Office Protocol) stores the emails on a single device and not on the server. POP doesn’t support public folder access. The folders are only accessed from the client’s device. This does not enforce aNinja’s vision for mobile data access.

If you want to keep messages on the server, make sure to enable the setting “Keep email on server”. Or all messages are deleted from the server once downloaded to the app or software.

IMAP (Internet Messaging Access Protocol)

IMAP is an internet protocol that lets you sync your email inbox across multiple devices. It also allows a two-way synchronization between the email clients and aNinja. So that if you communicate by email with your lead/customer (whether from aNinja, your email client, or anywhere), you will have all the relevant emails for that lead centralized in the aNinja lead view, as well as available in your email clients.

Why does aNinja only support IMAP

  • We only support IMAP because the main difference is that IMAP allows us to read the messages on the server and keep them there.
  • POP (an older protocol, that gets the messages off the server)
  • aNinja synchronizes the email messages view. So if you communicate by email with your lead/customer (whether from aNinja, your email client, or anywhere) you will have all the relevant emails for that lead centralized in the aNinja lead view (as well as available in your email clients).

Need help understanding the difference between IMAP vs POP3? Leave us a message at support@aninja.com. We will happily assist you!

Connect your Email with aNinja

Connect your email with aNinja to start sending email sequences to your leads.

It’s important to complete the 2 steps of the authorization for your email to sync properly.

Connect your email with aNinja

  • On the left sidebar, click on Settings > Email Accounts
  • If you already have an email account saved and want to complete the authorization, click on the edit pen next to the email. Then, go to step 2 —> Connect/Re-auth.
  • Otherwise, go ahead and create an email account. Click Add Email Account
Step 1
  • Fill in the following fields: Name and Email
  • And hit Update
Step 2
  • Click Connect / Re-auth

Connect your email with aNinja

Note! It is important to complete the 2 steps for the email to sync properly.