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Send a test marketing email

Last updated: June 11, 2025

Available with any of the following subscriptions, except where noted:

Marketing Hub   Starter , Professional , Enterprise
Legacy Marketing Hub Basic

Users in your HubSpot account who have Edit permissions for marketing emails can send a test version of a marketing email to themselves or a team member before you send out the actual email to your contacts. You can also send a test email using the HubSpot mobile app.

Please note: test emails are sent have a From name of Marketing Email Preview Send and a From address of noreply@hubspot.com. This does not reflect the From name and From address that will be used for the actual email. .

To send a test email:

  1. In your HubSpot account, navigate to Marketing > Email.
  2. Click the name of a drafted email. 
  3. In the email editor, click the Preview and test dropdown menu in the top right and select Send test email.

Image of the email editor with the Preview and test dropdown menu highlighted in the top right.

  1. In the right panel, click the Send test to dropdown menu and select a recipient
  2. To receive the test email as a specific contact, click the Preview as contact dropdown menu and select a contact
  3. To receive a test email of the plain text version of the email, click to expand the Advanced section and select the Send plain text version checkbox. 
  4. Click Send
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