Step-by-step guides for installing Interspire, configuring server settings, optimizing delivery, and performing upgrades.
Introduction When deploying Interspire Email Marketer where the database server is hosted remotely, it is important to secure the connection between the application and the MySQL server. Interspire as of version 8.5.2 supports SSL/TLS-encrypted database connections, and in this guide you will learn how to secure MySQL connections in Interspire. It will cover both new … Read more
Introduction Google announced the phase-out of Less Secure Apps (LSA) authentication, affecting users who use Gmail to receive their bounce notifications. Connecting to a Gmail account must now be done using Google OAuth. This guide will show you how to configure Google OAuth to access your Gmail mailbox. Step 1: Create a New Project Step … Read more
Introduction In the landscape of email marketing, a new challenge has emerged: the increasing prevalence of automated email clicks. These clicks, generated not by eager consumers but by non-human bots, are quietly but significantly altering the way email marketing campaigns are perceived and evaluated. This phenomenon is not just a mere curiosity; it has profound … Read more
In the ever-changing world of email marketing, where large email providers like Microsoft, Apple, and Gmail, along with the plethora of email security scanners from Barracuda, Symantec, and others, a new challenge has emerged – the relentless clicking of every link within incoming emails. While this issue is not entirely new, it has become increasingly … Read more
Sending medium to high volume of emails and having them land in the inbox can be difficult. A whole industry with a number of email sender services (SMTP providers) specialized in delivering emails exists to facilitate the inboxing of emails. Although sending emails directly from within your self-hosted email platform is possible, it may not … Read more
If you have determined that a self-hosted solution might be a good fit for your needs, what are the components needed to successfully run a self-hosted marketing automation platform? The four main components are: the software, a server, an SMTP provider, and a mailbox to collect the bounces. Self-hosting is not complicated. Let’s go over … Read more
cPanel is a popular Graphical User Interface (GUI) provided by many hosting companies to help their customers manage their servers and websites. This guide walks you through installing Interspire Email Marketer (IEM) using cPanel. The focus is on installing Interspire and does not cover the creation of email boxes for example. Please review the Interspire … Read more
This step-by-step guide will walk you through installing Interspire Email Marketer (IEM) on Ubuntu using a VULTR One-Click App Virtual Private Server (VPS). Interspire needs a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) or LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP) stack to run. Please review Interspire’s Server Requirements for more details. We will be using VULTR’s … Read more
Introduction You can configure Interspire Email Marketer to use one of the most affordable email sending services, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). This guide walks you through the steps to use Amazon SES to send email with Interspire Email Marketer (IEM). The setup consists of three main parts: The initial setup of SES in your … Read more
Version: 8.7.5 Released: July 10, 2026- Added: Encrypted custom fields with per-field AES-256 encryption, blind index for exact-match search, segment/export/merge-tag safeguards.- Added: Refreshed email template library with modern designs.- Added: Bot detection for opens and clicks with inline tagging plus a background backfill cron and daily reconciliation, admin-tunable thresholds under Settings, and filtered stats display … Read more