Preview
Previewing the message lets you test the message content after rendering. It allows you to check the message header, the message content and the attachments for each recipient. The most important is that it will execute all your personnalization settings: merge fields, scripts (content and global) and conditions for content enabling. What you preview is exactly the message that you will be sending out for each receiver.
Although previewing only renders and displays one message (EML file) at a time, you can use the record edition commands to render and preview messages sent to any recipient:
Previous / next record page: Lets you display the previous or the next message.
First / last record page: Lets you display the first or the last page of the records table.
List: Lets you choose which list you want to preview.
Message View
Display your message the way it will be represented on most mail clients. The upper part of the view includes the main headers as well as the attachments list.
When your message has a Text and a Html body, the message view only displays the Html body. However, each content can be independently visualized by opening the Preview node in the project tree.
Refresh : Click here to refresh the message view.
Open: Lets you open or download as an .eml file the message you are previewing.
Send a test message: Click on this button to send a test message. Then, you will be prompted to enter the email address where you want to send the message and to choose the outgoing queue you want to use.
Note that the sent message is the one which is displayed in the preview.
If your mailing project is tracked, the test message will not contain tracked link.
Anti-spam analysis: Click on this button to launch an anti-spam analysis of the current message.
The anti-spam analysis gets your message, analyses it and shows you an analyse score.
The higher the score is, the more chances you have to get your message flagged as a spam.
There are three levels of score:
  • The green means your email is not likely to be filtered or blocked.
  • The yellow means your email may be filtered or blocked.
  • The red means your email is likely to be filtered or blocked.
Note:
The anti-spam analysis is made by the powerful Apache SpamAssassin project.
You may consider the analysis result as an heuristic advice more than a reality.
Indeed, your message may be flagged as a spam in the receiver's outbox even if the anti-spam analysis result was green because:
  • The server you are using to send emails is blacklisted.
  • The server you are using to send emails is not correctly configured.
  • The settings of the receiver's mail reader or mail provider are more sensitive than the default settings of SpamAssassin.
Click here to find more information about spam mecanisms.
MIME View
Display the MIME hierarchy of the message as well as the message source.