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Configuring Google Email Capture

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Capture all your clients correspondence in real-time by configuring your Google inbox to route your emails into Accelo. 

Connecting your G Suite account allows you to enable automatic email syncing, which automatically syncs messages sent to or from Accelo contacts between your Accelo and Gmail accounts.

To connect to your Google account:

  1. Open the Integration page by clicking your User Profile Icon in the Navigation Bar and selecting Integrations.

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  2. Select Google and click the Connect button

  3. Once you've successfully connected, you will see a green bar with the text Connected with [email protected]

Once connected, the automatic email syncing process will check each inbox for new messages every thirty minutes.  

 

Capture Incoming Email with an Email Forwarding Rule

Incoming email can be synced to Accelo instantly using an email forwarding rule.  That rule can be configured either by the G Suite domain administrator, configuring forwarding rules for all users, or by individuals who want to improve the speed of their own email sync.

To improve the speed of your sync, we highly recommend using these forwarding rules to improve the speed at which emails are captured in Accelo. Email forwarding allows emails sent in your Google inbox to sync instantly within your Accelo account.

To forward incoming emails as an individual:

  1. Login to your Gmail account.
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  2. Open the Settings menu (found under the gear icon) and choose Settings.

  3. Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab

  4. Click on the Add a Forwarding Address button. This new forwarding rule will be used to automatically forward your email to your Accelo capture account, a unique email address granted to each Accelo user.  That capture address is [email protected] 

To add a Forwarding Address:

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  • If your Accelo username was john.doe, and your Accelo account was "demo", your capture account would be [email protected]

  1. Enter your Accelo Capture Address, Gmail will send you a verification email. Accelo will forward the verification email to your personal email address to complete verification.
  2. Verify the new forward rule, and your email forwarding will be turned on.

You can also find your Accelo capture account name under your Profile in Accelo.

We recommend testing if emails are being captured by having a client / friend whose email address is already listed as a contact in your Accelo account send an email. That email should automatically appear in your Accelo inbox.

Please note - Accelo will only capture emails from addresses that are already added as Contacts on your Account.  Emails sent to you by staff members at your Company or contacts not added to Accelo are not captured for security purposes.

Outgoing Email

Outgoing email, sent from Gmail, mobile phones, or other services connected to a user's G Suite account, can be captured by either using your Accelo account as an outgoing gateway, configured by the G Suite domain administrator, or by individual users by manually BCC'ing your Accelo account's log address.

Using Accelo as your domain's Outgoing Email Gateway

Easily sync outgoing email into Accelo by using Accelo as your domain's outgoing relay server, known in G Suite as the Outgoing Gateway. This will automatically capture outgoing emails sent by all Accelo users in your domain.

Setting up this option is easy, but must be done by the domain administrator and is not supported in the Free version of G Suite.

To set up Accelo as your domain’s Outgoing Gateway:

  1. Log into your G Suite admin console and select Manage This Domain. image20

  2. Click G Suite and select Gmail from the list of Services

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  3. Click User settings

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  4. On the Advanced user settings screen, scroll down to find Outbound Gateway.  Enter your Accelo account (minus "http://" or "www.")image23

  5. Click Save changes and within an hour, your emails will start being routed to the rest of the world via Accelo. 

Syncing individual messages to Accelo

If you aren't part of a G Suite domain, or don't want to use Accelo as a relay server, individual messages can be synced to Accelo as desired.  

To sync individual messages, BCC your Accelo account's unique log address, [email protected]  

Updating Your DNS

Now that you've connected your Accelo and G Suite email account, you'll need to update your DNS records to ensure that your emails continue to be delivered safely and securely.  Follow our Guide to updating your DNS's SPF record.

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