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.
| Address | Description |
|---|---|
| newsletters@mg.buttondown.email | Send an email to this address to send the email content directly to your subscribers as a newsletter email. |
| drafts@mg.buttondown.email | Send an email to this address to save a draft. |
I've got multiple newsletters. How do I choose which one to send to?
Buttondown first looks for a newsletter whose sender address (in the Sending domain settings page) matches the address you're sending from. If none matches, Buttondown uses the newsletter owned by your Buttondown account's email address (in the Security settings page).
If your account owns more than one newsletter, send from the sender address of the newsletter you want, so 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.