Human replies usually within 48 hours; common questions get an instant automated answer.
Install OutReach Pilot from the Chrome Web Store · connect your mailbox
Written down on purpose. A tool that hides its edges is harder to trust than one that names them.
Your network is blocking outbound SMTP on ports 465 and 587. Consumer ISPs in some countries
and most corporate or hotel networks do this. The app password is fine — the connection never
reaches Google. Try another network (phone hotspot works), or ask IT to allow
smtp.gmail.com:465. Reply detection reads over IMAP (port 993) and is usually
unaffected, so you can still see replies even while sending is blocked.
Because we do not count machine traffic. Apple Mail Privacy Protection pre-fetches pixels, Gmail's image proxy does the same, and corporate security scanners fetch every image before a person sees the mail. Those hits are recorded as events and shown as "possible opens", but they are not counted in the open rate. Expect your number to drop by roughly 30-40% against tools that count every image load — the honest number is the lower one.
Only messages from the recipients of your own campaigns, within a 7-day window, using
BODY.PEEK so nothing is marked as read. Auto-replies, out-of-office and bulk
messages are ignored. Unrelated mail in your inbox is never fetched.
Free: 50 emails/day. Pro: whatever your Gmail account allows — 500/day on @gmail.com, 2,000/day on Google Workspace — with an 80/hour safety throttle. We do not relay through shared servers, so Gmail's ceiling is the real ceiling.
Yes, same app-password path. If your admin has disabled app passwords for the organisation, the Google page will refuse to create one and the SMTP setup cannot be completed — that is a Workspace policy setting, not something the extension can override.