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What is a Design and Spam Test? How Can I Do One in CleverReach?

A design & spam test gives you the opportunity to check the layout and any spam classification of your newsletter before the final dispatch.
Further information can be found on our website at Design and spam test: Newsletter client testing.

By sending the mailing via our email marketing tool, the spam classification is lower than if you were to send the newsletter via your own email account. would be. Nevertheless, it is possible that your newsletter may be classified as spam by the classified as spam by the mail server - e.g. due to HTML errors in the source code of the email.

To avoid a spam classification, we recommend that you carry out a design & spam test in advance.

The design and spam test can be booked as an option regardless of your chosen tariff. be booked in addition

The design & spam test checks:

  • Inbox preview of your mailing: How is your newsletter likely to be received in the inbox of the most popular email programs (e.g. various Outlook versions, Gmail, Yahoo!) look like?
  • SPAM messages: Are there any spam messages when the newsletter is sent? a spam message?

Booking the design & spam tests:

  1. Click on the profile icon at the top right > Prices & tariffs

  2. Scroll down a little further in the tariff overview to the additional services. There you will find the option to add design and spam tests to the shopping cart


  3. Complete the booking via your shopping cart and proceed to checkout to fill up your test quota.

Apply design & spam tests to email

  1. Click on E-mails in the menu on the left and open the mailing to which you want to apply the test.

  2. Click on Preview > Design & Spam test in the top right-hand corner.

  3. If you have not yet purchased a test quota, you can do so directly via the button Purchase design and spam tests purchase.

  4. Click on Start test to be redirected to the next page and see the overview of the design and spam test. You can view the status of the test above the process. If the test is still being processed, not all available email clients have been evaluated yet.
    Note: You do not need to leave the test view open. The test runs in the background so that you can view the current status of the test later in the same way.

Note: The design & spam test comes from an external provider. If an error occurs, our service team may unfortunately not be able to understand exactly why it occurred. Nevertheless, we would like to ask you that you contact our service team if you receive an error message or if the test has not been carried out correctly. Our employees will be happy to help you at any time. Thank you very much in advance.

 

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