email-infra-emailbison-setuplisted
Install: claude install-skill Growth-Today/claude-skills
# EmailBison Inbox Setup · [Sales Ops]
> **⚠️ EmailBison is being retired.** Growth Today is moving to Instantly. The migration is
> approved and under way, and all EmailBison campaigns finish by **end of August 2026**, after
> which Bison is switched off. Keep using this sub-skill for campaigns still running on Bison;
> **start anything new in Instantly** (the instantly-setup sub-skill). Do not invest further
> effort in Bison-specific process.
> **Reads:** `{SKILL_BASE}/resources/reference.md` §1, §5 · `{SKILL_BASE}/resources/approved-vendors.md` · **Related:** provisioning, warmup-golive, campaign-building.
> 🔒 **Read-only area.** Connecting an inbox to the sequencer is done from the **email infra management system**. Follow this sub-skill for the standard each inbox must meet and to read and verify live state (setup-audit rows 1–7); do not connect, reconnect or swap inboxes by hand.
Set up sending inboxes in **EmailBison** (one of the sequencers Growth Today runs). Infrastructure/inbox side only, sequences and copy live in `gt-cold-email`. Numbers in `{SKILL_BASE}/resources/reference.md` §1, §5. Steps below reflect the EmailBison / Bisonsphere help center; where a value is set only in the app UI, that is flagged.
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## Part 0, Who does the setup (two paths)
**Default: a vendor does it.** An approved vendor (e.g. ScaledMail, see `{SKILL_BASE}/resources/approved-vendors.md`) buys the domains, creates and configures the mailboxes, sets DNS, and does first QA. Growt