Use a Sending Server in Your Campaigns

Once your Sending Server is Running, you decide which campaigns use it. A campaign's email accounts then connect to their email providers through the server's dedicated IP address instead of Oppora's shared network.

This guide shows the three places you can pick a server, the two rules that keep each email account on a steady IP address, and what happens when a server isn't working.

Don't have a server yet? Start with What is a Sending Server?

What you'll have at the end

• Campaigns sending through your own IP address, chosen campaign by campaign.
• Each email account on one server, so its address stays steady the way Google and Microsoft expect.
• No interruptions. If a server stops working, its campaigns keep sending from Oppora's shared network and switch back on their own.

Option 1: Choose a server while you build a campaign

The campaign builder has a Sending Server step right after Sending, where you pick your email accounts.

1. Check the email accounts. The accounts you chose on the Sending step are listed at the top. Click Change to go back and pick different ones.
2. Pick a server, or None (Oppora default) to send from Oppora's shared network. Only servers that are ready and healthy can be picked. A server that is still being set up, stopped or not working is shown greyed out with the reason.
3. Click Next. Your choice is saved to the campaign.

Need another server? Click Buy a server under the list.

Option 2: Choose a campaign when a new server is ready

When a new server finishes setup, Oppora asks "Your server is ready. Which campaign should use it?" Pick a campaign and click Continue. See Step 4 of What is a Sending Server?

Option 3: Change the server on an existing campaign

Open the campaign and go to the Rules tab. Under Select accounts to send messages from you'll find the Sending server field.

Pick a different server, or None (Oppora default) to stop using a server for that campaign.

Two rules to know

One server per campaign

All the email accounts in a campaign send through the same server. To use different servers for different accounts, split them into separate campaigns.

One server per email account

An email account sends all of its email through one server at a time. Email providers like Google and Microsoft trust a mailbox more when it always connects from the same address, so Oppora won't let one account bounce between servers.

If you pick a server for a campaign and one of its email accounts already sends through a different server in another campaign, Oppora stops you and explains:

You can fix it in one click:

• Use [server name] switches this campaign to the server the account already uses. Oppora offers this when every clashing account uses the same server and that server is ready.
• Remove this account (or Remove these accounts) takes the account out of this campaign so you can keep your chosen server. A campaign always needs at least one email account.

Next stays disabled until the conflict is fixed.

Good to know

• "None" doesn't move an account off its server. If you pick None (Oppora default) but an account already sends through a server for another campaign, it keeps using that server. Oppora shows a note naming the server and campaign.
• Some accounts can't use a server. If an email account's mail settings don't allow it, Oppora shows a note and that account keeps sending normally, without the server.

What happens if the server isn't working?

Your campaign keeps sending. If the server is down, stopped, restarting, or suspended for an unpaid invoice, the campaign's email accounts send from Oppora's shared network as usual. When the server is working again, they go back to it on their own. You don't need to change anything.

If you open the Sending Server step while the campaign's own server isn't working, Oppora tells you so. You can keep it selected, and the campaign returns to it once it recovers.

FAQ

Does using a server change my daily limits, schedule or warmup? No. They work exactly as before. Only the network your email accounts connect from changes.

Can several campaigns share one server? Yes. Open the server to see which campaigns and how many email accounts use it, and how much it has sent this month against its recommended monthly limit.

I picked a server but the campaign still shows "Not available". What now? The campaign keeps sending without the server in the meantime. Open the server from Email Accounts → Sending Servers to see what's wrong, or see Sending Server billing, cancelling and actions if it was suspended for payment.