Send from options

For each email you will need to select a sender - the email address that the email will come from (e.g. staffbriefing@imperial.ac.uk).

You will need to get your send from options set up before you send your first email. Find out more about the options

Sending a test email

Sending a test email to yourself is very important, and should be done every time you send out an email to your recipients. This allows you to troubleshoot styling, formatting, and data rendering issues that might not have been realized up to that point. Consider checking the following when you send a test email:

• Has it been sent from the correct address?
• Do all the hyperlinks work and go to the right page?
• Do your images display correctly?
• Is the order of your items correct?
• Have you removed formatting and is the font and size consistent?
• Are there any typos or grammatical errors?

Maximise the impact of your subject line

An A/B split test allows you to select up to three different subject lines for your newsletter and test to see which subject line gets the most opens. Find out how to do this in Poppulo

Sending an email to a distribution list

Once you have checked your test email, follow the steps below to send to a distribution list. 

• In the ‘to’ field, select ‘distribution list’ 
• Search by the Outlook display name e.g. Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences, Undergraduates (not ic-fons-ug-dl@imperial.ac.uk)
• If you’re not sure what the display name is, paste your style list, for example ic-fons-ug-dl@imperial.ac.uk, into the ‘to’ box when writing a new email in Outlook and click ‘check names’ – it will change to the relevant display name.