Email Your Newsletter with Smore

User Guide

📬 It's easy to email your newsletter

Sharing your newsletter via email is a fast, dependable way to reach your readers, no matter where they are. Smore makes it easy to add your contacts and send them your beautiful newsletter as an email -- without needing to use another email service. In this tutorial, we'll cover how to...

1. Select email as your sending option
2. Add or choose recipients
3. Create and manage a mailing list
4. Send a test email
5. Send your Smore newsletter using another service
6. View email analytics

Already know one of these? Scroll down to get a head start.

🚀 Get Smore Pro - Send 5,000+ Emails

If you're on a Smore Free plan, you're entitled to 200 email sends each month. This means that, for example, if you have a mailing list of 100 people, you can email them twice per month.

If you're on a Smore Pro plan, you can send 5,000 emails every month (or more, depending on your plan). This means that if, for example, you have a mailing list of 100 people, you can email them 50 times each month. Not that you should email them almost twice a day... just that you can. :-)

1. Select email as your sending option

Sharing your newsletter via email is an easy way to spread the word and reach your readers, no matter where they are. Smore allows you to email your newsletter to individual recipients or to a mailing list.

To begin, simply click the green "Share with Email" button at the top of your newsletter page.

2. Add or choose recipients

After you've hit that "Send with Email" button, you'll then have two options -- to manually enter recipients, or to use a mailing list.

If this is your first time using Smore's email feature, you obviously won't yet have any mailing lists to choose from. Don't worry, they're easy to create!

Read more below.

Enter Recipients and Email Your Newsletter

After you've clicked the "Enter Recipients and Send Via Email" button, you'll have the option to add recipients. You can manually type in email addresses, or copy and paste them in. Once you've added your recipients, you'll have a chance to update your subject line and add a personal message. When you're ready to go, click "Send newsletter now."

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Creating a Mailing List

If you clicked "Choose a mailing list," you'll have the option to create a mailing list from scratch, or choose from one that you've already made.

To create a new mailing list, click "Create a new list."

Then, choose a list name and add recipients. Once you've added your recipients, click "Continue to step 3," and you'll have a chance to update your subject line and add a personal message. When you're ready to go, click "Send newsletter now."

Select a Mailing List

Simply select the list you'd like to send to, and then hit "Continue to step 2" to choose a subject line and add a personal message before sending.

4. Sending a test email

Click the "send a test email" button, and you'll see an option to send yourself a test email.

You are only able to send yourself a test email. However, if you'd like other people to preview your work, simply add their email addresses (or make a mailing list of "Email Reviewers") and email them your newsletter, before sending it to your wider, intended audience.

5. Want to email your Smore newsletter from another service? No problem!

To email your newsletter from another service, simply copy and paste the link into your email client or SIS. Just click "Copy or embed link" and then tap the "copy" button right above the bar.

If you use Blackboard, you're able to create and send your newsletter within your Bb interface. For more info, click here. (link to SMore x Blackboard)

6. View Your Email Analytics

You can see how many people received, opened, and clicked your newsletter by going to your newsletter Analytics, and looking at the Email Report tab. For more info, click here for our Analytics FAQ.