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title: "Message Preview (Email)"
slug: "email-message-preview"
updated: 2026-02-10T15:14:31Z
published: 2026-02-10T15:14:31Z
canonical: "docs.mapp.com/email-message-preview"
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# Message Preview (Email)

## 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.

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## Navigation path

When creating or editing an email, click **Message Preview**

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## 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.

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## 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.

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### Content visibility

- **Show images**

Controls whether images are displayed in the preview. Turning this off shows a text-focused version of the email.

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### Message context

- **Group**

Defines the group context used for the preview.
- **Recipient**

Defines the email address used when sending a preview message.

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## 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.