How to Set Up the MailPoet Sending Service

After you have signed up for a MailPoet plan that includes sending via our MailPoet Sending Service, your next step will be to set things up on your site.

Activating your license key

First, you will want to go to the MailPoet > Settings > Key Activation tab in your site's administrator dashboard to activate your plan's license key (and install the Premium plugin if you are on a paid plan).

We have a step-by-step guide for activating your key here.

Important: key activation will not work if your website is on localhost or behind a firewall. Please read more about it here.

Every time you validate a key that includes the MailPoet Sending Service, our sending service will be activated as your sending method automatically.  

You can confirm the MailPoet Sending Service is set as your sending method by going to the MailPoet > Settings > Send With... tab:

Sender FROM address authentication

When you are just getting started and sending test/preview emails, you can Authorize individual FROM email addresses on your account. You can send email previews FROM and TO these Authorized addresses while you are awaiting account approval as well.

Please refer to our guide for authorizing individual FROM addresses here.

Sender Domain authentication

Before you can start sending out bulk emails to your subscriber lists, you will need to make sure your Sender Domain is authenticated with DKIM and DMARC.

The "Sender Domain" is the domain of the email address you will be using for your FROM address, and will need to be an address on your own domain (not a free third-party address like @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). 

Check out our guide for authenticating your Sender Domain here.