How Mailtrap Email Sending Works - Getting Started Guide

hello there thank you for joining mailtrap a platform to test sent and control all of your email infrastructure in one place I'm Grigori and in this tutorial I shall briefly show you how mail trap email sending works getting started well it is really easy navigate to email sending sending the mates enter your domain and continue to verify it so these are the DNS records you need to add to your domain provide or register quickly copy the first record in our example the domain is hosted with GoDaddy now click on the DNS management and start adding your records from mailtrap one by one it's pretty much self-explanatory since the records naming is the same keep in mind that SPF is a text type record not an SPF type so when adding SPF make sure you select the text type and know that your records may not show up immediately mailtrap checks the records every hour to verify them automatically but you can force a check by clicking the verify all button it is likely some will be verified right away while some may take a bit longer before all of them turn green next to start sending integrate mailtrap with your app under the same email sending menu navigate to the sending domains then API and SMTP I'll be using SMTP for my Ruby app and to test sending emails I shall enter my email address into the form where I want to collect leads now back to the same tab copy the host then the recommended port username password for demonstration purposes only and this domain in action mailer otherwise the email won't be validated and delivered after these simple steps your app is ready to send emails to check if it works let's do the initial steps again as if the user entered their email and here is the new email in your inbox great it works also consider adding email categories for better management and analytics now under stats you can find our helicopter view dashboard choose the time period you want to analyze and see the scorecards you can also see the overall reports for different mailbox providers such as Gmail Google workspace Office 365 Yahoo Microsoft Outlook and so on plus you have up to 60 days of email logs for improved debugging [Music] so you can drill down much deeper and even check the email preview after it was sent and at the top of that mailtrap sends you weekly Health reports and on-event notifications so you are always in control of your sending metrics of course there is a lot more to mailtrap email sending than that but we shall let you discover the rest for yourself and do not forget to pair with our email testing functionality to test analyze and validate your emails securely without spamming your recipients should you need any kind of assistance you can always click on that help button and drop us a message we're always there for you [Music]

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Length: 3min 22sec (202 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 26 2023