About email senders ✉️
An email sender is an email address that messages from Engage are sent from. You can add multiple email senders, but you must add at least one to complete the setup and send your first message.
Email senders must be real, usable email addresses that already exist on your connected email domain. Givebutter isn't capable of creating new email addresses on your custom domain – we can only connect to existing ones.
Add a new sender ➕
In the Engage tab, click Settings under the Engage header.
Click on Email Senders.
If there are no email senders yet, enter the display name and email address you want to connect and click Submit.
To add additional senders, click Add New, and enter the sender name and email address.
A verification email will be sent to the email address you entered. Click verify email.
Your sender email will now show as Verified, and you can now create your first outbound email!
Managing senders ⚙️
If you would like to edit or remove an email sender, click the three dots (...) next to the email and then select Edit Name or Delete Sender.
FAQ 🤔
My organization has a website domain, but we use Gmail for email. Can we connect gmail.com email addresses?
No – you can only connect email addresses that end in the same domain you connected the DNS records with. This is because you do not have access to edit DNS settings for the entire gmail.com domain. You can only add these for a domain you own. You'll need to create a new email address using your custom domain.
What happens if I add a sender, but don't verify the email address?
You will not be able to send out an email from an unverified email sender. Please note that you can send yourself test emails in Engage from an unverified sender, but you cannot deploy a real outbound Engage email.
What if I don't have a custom domain to connect?
If you don't have a custom domain for connecting email senders, you can use a free, Givebutter-supplied domain to send emails with Engage.