# Connect Email

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### **Step 1: Connect your email accounts**

* Go to your [Account](https://app.gethyperscale.com/account) page
* Click **Continue with Gmail** or **Continue with Outlook**
  * **Outlook (Office 365 users):** Please check you have [enabled sending permissions](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/authenticated-client-smtp-submission#enable-smtp-auth-for-specific-mailboxes).&#x20;
* Alternatively, you can click **Continue with SMTP** and enter your SMTP credentials
  * Note: Google and Outlook options are recommended over SMTP to due to better deliverability (i.e. less likely to be blocked or labeled as Spam)

### **Step 2: Test your connection**

* Click Test
* Enter the email you want to send a test email to (ideally your own inbox)
* Send email and see if you received an email in that inbox
* If you received the test email, your connection was successful

### Step 3: Check you have DMARC, SPF, DKIM records properly set up

* This ensures higher deliverability so you land in inboxes, rather than spam
* If you fail any checks, visit [how-to-authenticate-email-dkim-dmarc-spf](https://docs.gethyperscale.com/email-best-practices/how-to-authenticate-email-dkim-dmarc-spf "mention") for further instructions