How to set up your Splitter?
Using a Splitter is one of the ways to improve your deliverability with Mailsplit. A Splitter is like merging multiple mailboxes into one mailbox, which becomes your main email sender. You’ll simply connect your mailboxes to it, then connect your Splitter to an emailing tool, and you’re good to send your campaigns.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up and manage your Splitter. Here are the steps you’ll need to follow:
Step 1: Create your Splitter
Step 2: Manage Mailboxes inside a Splitter
Step 3:Connect your Splitter to your emailing tool
Step 4: Set up your Reply-to address
To create your Splitter, you can login to Mailsplit, and click on the Splitters tab, then click on “Add Splitter”.
You can name the Splitter however you want.
Info box: The Reply-to address refers to one of your email addresses in which you want to receive all your campaign replies. You can set it up when creating your Splitter, or later on in your Splitter Settings (see Step 4).
[Screenshot of the Splitter creation process]
Once you create a Splitter, you can add your Mailboxes to it by clicking on the “**Add a Mailbox**” button.
You can either choose a Mailbox that is already connected to Mailsplit from the dropdown menu, or you can add a new Mailbox by clicking on “**add a new Mailbox**”, then entering your SMTP settings. To learn how to connect a new Mailbox to Mailsplit, you can check this article.
[Screenshot of the Mailbox addition popup with the Add a Mailbox button highlighted]
Once you add your Mailboxes, you can delete them or access their settings by hovering over them (see the screenshot below).
[Screenshot of a hovered mailbox inside a Splitter]
Your Splitter is now configured inside of Mailsplit. You can use it to send your emailing campaigns.
To do so, you should use your Splitter’s SMTP to replace your current sending email with your Splitter in your emailing tool. You can access your Splitter SMTP credentials by clicking on the Settings button in the top right corner of your Splitter page (see screenshot below). Then, you can copy your Splitter credentials over to your emailing tool.
[Screenshot of the settings window with a highlighted settings button]
If you’re unsure about this step, we have put together a list of popular emailing tools. You can click on your tool’s name and you’ll be redirected to a tutorial that helps you with connecting your Splitter to it:
Mailshake
Snov
Lemlist….
If you don’t find your emailing tool in this list, you can simply google: connect my smtp to <emailing tool name>. You can find a tutorial from their docs. Usually, it’s the same steps you followed to connect your initial email.
A Splitter will send emails from multiple mailboxes, so it’s a good idea to gather all your campaigns’ replies in one chosen mailbox. This is the purpose of the Reply-to address feature. You enter one email address per Splitter, and all the replies you receive will end up in that mailbox. You can then carry on your conversations with your leads.
To set up your reply-to address, you can simply click on the Settings button in the top right corner, then in the pop up window, add an email address to the Reply-to text box, click on Update Splitter, and you’re good to go.
[Screenshot of the Reply-to address addition process]
You’re all done for the set up of your Splitter. If you want to learn more about how to benefit from a Splitter, you can check this article.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up and manage your Splitter. Here are the steps you’ll need to follow:
Step 1: Create your Splitter
Step 2: Manage Mailboxes inside a Splitter
Step 3:Connect your Splitter to your emailing tool
Step 4: Set up your Reply-to address
Step 1: Create your Splitter
To create your Splitter, you can login to Mailsplit, and click on the Splitters tab, then click on “Add Splitter”.
You can name the Splitter however you want.
Info box: The Reply-to address refers to one of your email addresses in which you want to receive all your campaign replies. You can set it up when creating your Splitter, or later on in your Splitter Settings (see Step 4).
[Screenshot of the Splitter creation process]
Step 2: Manage Mailboxes inside a Splitter
Once you create a Splitter, you can add your Mailboxes to it by clicking on the “**Add a Mailbox**” button.
You can either choose a Mailbox that is already connected to Mailsplit from the dropdown menu, or you can add a new Mailbox by clicking on “**add a new Mailbox**”, then entering your SMTP settings. To learn how to connect a new Mailbox to Mailsplit, you can check this article.
[Screenshot of the Mailbox addition popup with the Add a Mailbox button highlighted]
Once you add your Mailboxes, you can delete them or access their settings by hovering over them (see the screenshot below).
[Screenshot of a hovered mailbox inside a Splitter]
Step 3: Connect your Splitter to your emailing tool
Your Splitter is now configured inside of Mailsplit. You can use it to send your emailing campaigns.
To do so, you should use your Splitter’s SMTP to replace your current sending email with your Splitter in your emailing tool. You can access your Splitter SMTP credentials by clicking on the Settings button in the top right corner of your Splitter page (see screenshot below). Then, you can copy your Splitter credentials over to your emailing tool.
[Screenshot of the settings window with a highlighted settings button]
If you’re unsure about this step, we have put together a list of popular emailing tools. You can click on your tool’s name and you’ll be redirected to a tutorial that helps you with connecting your Splitter to it:
Mailshake
Snov
Lemlist….
If you don’t find your emailing tool in this list, you can simply google: connect my smtp to <emailing tool name>. You can find a tutorial from their docs. Usually, it’s the same steps you followed to connect your initial email.
Step 4: Set up your Reply-to address
A Splitter will send emails from multiple mailboxes, so it’s a good idea to gather all your campaigns’ replies in one chosen mailbox. This is the purpose of the Reply-to address feature. You enter one email address per Splitter, and all the replies you receive will end up in that mailbox. You can then carry on your conversations with your leads.
To set up your reply-to address, you can simply click on the Settings button in the top right corner, then in the pop up window, add an email address to the Reply-to text box, click on Update Splitter, and you’re good to go.
[Screenshot of the Reply-to address addition process]
You’re all done for the set up of your Splitter. If you want to learn more about how to benefit from a Splitter, you can check this article.
Updated on: 16/11/2023
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