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Understanding inbox and channel settings
Overview Your inboxes and channels have many settings and features that allow you to customize your workflows and preferences. To edit them, click the gear icon on the top right of Front and into the…
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Allow all participants to reply in a conversation
Overview Channels in shared inboxes have an All teammates can reply option. This is turned off by default. When turned off, only teammates with access to that shared inbox can reply with,…
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Views [legacy feature]
Overview ⚠️ This is a legacy feature. Front accounts created after Jan 26, 2023 use the new version of Views described here. Views are a combination of filters that create a dynamic list of…
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How to manage changing your domain name or migrating email providers
Overview Maybe your team is going through a rebrand or maybe you're just migrating providers for your email system. Either way, there are cases where you need to change email channel configuration…
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Configuring Google Workspace accounts to send via Gmail SMTP Relay
Overview You can connect Google Workspace user accounts to Front, and send outbound email via Gmail’s SMTP Relay in order to access higher daily sending limits for your Gmail channels (see Google’s…
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Mass archive your conversations
Overview There may be times you end up with a large number of open conversations in your shared or individual inbox. Perhaps you've just imported your individual inbox into Front and want to start…
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How to remove a channel or delete an inbox
Overview When managing shared or individual inboxes, you may need to delete inboxes or remove channels. Let's first understand the difference between the two:…
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Redirecting your email from various email providers
Overview For non-Google or Office 365 two-way sync email accounts, you will have to redirect your emails from your provider to a Front forwarding address.…
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Installing Front Chat on a Wix.com site
Overview The steps you need to take to install Front Chat on your site can vary from our regular instructions in some cases. One instance of this is when you build you site using Wix.…
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How to set a default signature for a channel
Overview You may have several signatures set up, and if you'd like to use different default signatures for different email addresses, you can set different default signatures for each channel.…
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Recognize logged in users with Front Chat identity verification
Overview When you set up Front Chat, you can securely pass visitor email addresses to the Front Chat widget to recognize logged in users automatically. Instructions Step 1 Install the Front Chat…
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How to move a channel from one inbox to another
Overview Front allows you to move a channel from one individual inbox to another individual inbox, or from one shared inbox to another shared inbox. If you have multiple Workspaces,…
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Why are my messages threading together?
Overview Are seemingly independent messages being threaded together in one conversation? When it comes to emails and how they work, there are many factors that can lead to this happening.…
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Reauthorizing your inbox
Overview If you have your Gmail or Office 365 account connected in Front, it's possible you've been asked to reauthorized your account before. While it may seem strange that we're asking you to do…
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Customize when conversations bump up
Overview Based on your team's workflows and inbox setup, you may want to customize when conversations bump to the top of the inbox in the Team section of your sidebar.…
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How to validate your inbox
Overview When adding a new SMTP inbox via a forwarding connection, we ask you to validate that the redirect is working correctly. We will simply send an email to your public address and wait until it…
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Email threading and how to change your threading mode
Overview Conversation threading is a feature used to automatically group messages with their replies. Every email contains a unique message-id, which is automatically included in the references of…
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Auto-assign conversations on first reply
Overview Front has a helpful feature to aid your team in maintaining consistency in handling communications and ensuring there is an owner for every shared conversation.…
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How to redirect emails from Outlook to Front
Overview The following steps go over how to set up forwarding in Outlook. If you would like to link your Office 365 account to Front and take advantage of two-way sync,…
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How to change the From or Send As address for a channel
Overview Front allows you to receive emails in one email address, and send as a different From address if you need to, such as using an alias. You can set one different Send As address for each Gmail…