Last updated: October 4, 2023
You can send a test version of your marketing email to yourself or a team member before you send out the actual email to your contacts.
Send a test email using the drag and drop email editor
If you're creating your email using the drag and drop editor:
- In your HubSpot account, navigate to Marketing > Email.
- Hover over the name of a draft email and click Edit.
- In the upper right, click Send test email.
- In the right pane, click the Choose one or more recipients dropdown menu to select recipients for your test email.
- (Optional) Click the Receive as specific contact dropdown menu to preview the email as it will appear to a specific contact. Selecting this option can be helpful if you want to test personalization in your email.
- Click Send test email.
Send a test email using the classic email editor
If you're creating your email using the classic editor:
- In your HubSpot account, navigate to Marketing > Email.
- Hover over the name of a draft email and click Edit.
- In the left sidebar, click the mail icon .
- Click the Choose one or more recipients dropdown menu and select the email address(es) to send the test email to.
- Click the Receive email as a specific contact dropdown menu if you want to test any personalization tokens used in the email, or leave it blank to preview sending the email to an unspecified contact.
- Click Send test email.
Why are test emails sent from noreply@hubspot.com?
All test emails are sent from noreply@hubspot.com, to protect your email deliverability rates. When you send the email to your contacts, it will be sent with the From name and From address you've specified.