Introduction
Message Preview lets you review an email message before sendout.
It shows a simulated version of the email so you can quickly verify content, personalization, and visual presentation.
Navigation path
When creating or editing an email, click Message Preview
What Message Preview shows
Message Preview provides different views of the same email to help you validate how the message appears under different conditions:
A preview for a specific recipient
An overview of all personalization variants
A text-focused view without images
These views do not change the message itself.
Preview settings
The following settings control how the preview is generated and displayed.
Personalization settings
Preview with values
Selects the data source used to resolve personalization values in the preview.
Contact
Uses profile attributes from a selected contact.
Custom values
Uses manually entered attribute values for the preview.
Random group member
Uses attribute values from a randomly selected member of the selected group.
Personalization rules
Controls whether personalization rules are applied when generating the preview.
Content visibility
Show images
Controls whether images are displayed in the preview. Turning this off shows a text-focused version of the email.
Message context
Group
Defines the group context used for the preview.
Recipient
Defines the email address used when sending a preview message.
Preview actions
Update
Refreshes the preview based on the current settings.
Send preview
Sends a preview version of the email to the specified email address.
Send rendering test
Submits the message for rendering tests across supported email clients.
Download
Downloads the preview as an .eml file for offline review.