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Sending via email

Need to send an email or start a draft while you're out and about? Buttondown offers an SMTP endpoint (also known as our Magic Email Address) to make sending a newsletter as easy as sending any other email.

How does this work?

Write a newsletter email and email it to one of the email addresses we provide. Depending on which email address you use, you can do one of these two things. You can send the email you wrote to Buttondown to save as a draft for a future newsletter email, or you can send a newsletter email directly to your subscribers.

AddressDescription
newsletters@mg.buttondown.emailSend an email to this address to send the email content directly to your subscribers as a newsletter email.
drafts@mg.buttondown.emailSend an email to this address to save a draft.

I've got multiple newsletters. How do I choose which one to send to?

Buttondown decides which newsletter to send to based on the email address associated with your newsletter (in the Basic settings page), not your Buttondown account's email address (which is the one in your Profile).

Send an email from the email address associated with your newsletter to make sure it's saved in the correct drafts or sent to the right subscribers.

What about attachments?

The Magic Email Address supports images, but not attachments. If you need to include an attachment, you can upload it to a file hosting service (like Dropbox or Google Drive) and include a link to it in your email.

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