> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://api.leadey.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# 2. Connect your channels

> Mailboxes, calendars, phone numbers, LinkedIn and WhatsApp — the accounts Leadey sends and calls from.

<Note>
  Video walkthrough coming soon.
</Note>

Leadey does not send from a generic address on your behalf. It sends from your
accounts — your mailboxes, your phone numbers, your LinkedIn profile — so replies
come back to you and your reputation is yours. This part connects them.

Everything here is under **Settings**, in the **Email & Messaging** and
**Calling** groups.

## Mailboxes

**Settings** → **Mailboxes**.

Connect each mailbox you want to send from:

* **Connect Gmail** or **Connect Outlook** for a normal OAuth connection. You
  approve the access on Google or Microsoft's own screen.
* **Connect via SMTP** for anything else, including dedicated cold-outreach
  inboxes from a third-party provider.

Connect more than one and Leadey rotates between them, which spreads volume
rather than hammering a single address.

<Note>
  Connect the mailbox you actually want replies in. Leadey reads that inbox to
  match replies to the right lead — if you send from an address nobody watches,
  the reply never finds its lead.
</Note>

## Sending domains

**Settings** → **Domains**.

If you are doing cold outreach at volume, send from a separate domain rather
than the one your company runs on. A deliverability problem on a cold domain
should never be able to touch your real email.

You can bring a domain you own, and Leadey will set up the DNS records that
authorise it to send.

## Calendars

**Settings** → **Calendars** → **Connect Google Calendar** or **Connect Outlook
Calendar**.

This does two things. It shows your real commitments so a booking link never
offers a slot you are already busy in, and it pins meetings you have with people
in your database onto their lead profile automatically.

<Note>
  Connect every calendar you actually book into. Availability is only as honest
  as the calendars Leadey can see, and a booking link that double-books you is
  worse than no booking link.
</Note>

## Phone lines

**Settings** → **Phone Lines**.

Provision a number, or bring one you already own. This is what the Power Dialer
calls from and what inbound calls arrive on.

Two options worth knowing about:

* **Local Presence** — call from a number in the same area code as the person
  you are calling. Answer rates are measurably better.
* **Number health** — Leadey watches how your numbers are being treated and
  parks one that starts getting flagged as spam, before it drags your whole
  set down.

## LinkedIn

Connect a LinkedIn account to send connection requests and messages as part of
a workflow. Leadey respects LinkedIn's own limits — it will not push volume that
puts the account at risk.

## WhatsApp

**Settings** → **WhatsApp**.

Business messaging, with the rules that come with it. Outside a 24-hour window
from the person's last message, you can only send an approved template — that is
Meta's rule, not ours, and Leadey enforces it rather than letting a send fail
silently.

## Check it worked

* A mailbox listed as connected, and marked as your default sender
* A calendar listed, showing its email address
* At least one phone line with an **active** status

## What you should have now

Accounts connected for every channel you intend to use. Nothing has been sent
yet — that comes once there are leads and a campaign.

<Card title="Part 3 — Get leads into Leadey" href="/tutorials/03-get-leads-in" horizontal>
  Import a list, capture inbound, or add people by hand.
</Card>