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Excluding emails from the archive

If you've got archives turned on for your newsletter, you still might want to 'hide' certain emails from the archive. This could be for a variety of reasons, such as:

  • You're sending a one-off email that's not part of your regular newsletter
  • You're sending a time-sensitive email that you don't want to be visible after a certain date
  • You're sending an email to a certain tag that you don't want to be visible to the public

Whatever the reason, you can exclude emails from the archive both as you send the email and after you've sent it, by setting the email as private. Private emails:

  • Are not visible on your public archive page
  • Are not included in your RSS feed
  • Cannot be accessed by anybody but you

Sending an email as private

When you're sending an email, you can set it as private by opening the "Recipients" modal and choosing "Private":

Making an email private after it's been sent

If you've already sent an email and you want to make it private, you can do so by going into the Emails list page, clicking the dropdown menu, and selecting "Change visibility":

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