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# Set Up Email Sends

Users can send pre-approved or customized email messages through Distributed Marketing. Email messages are created using Content Builder and sent through Journey Builder using the Email activity.

Considerations:

- By default, messages are sent to the standard CRM email field: Email. You can modify the field using custom development.
- By default, messages can be sent from the running user or the record owner. You can modify the send from information in Distributed Marketing Administration or custom development.
- Message personalization is enabled through Distributed Marketing Content Blocks.

To enable Emails Sends in Distributed Marketing, follow these steps:

1. Create a journey using the Email message activity.
2. Enable the journey in a Campaign Send or Quick Send workflow.

- **[Create a Distributed Marketing Sender Profile](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_create_distributed_marketing_sender_profile.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Create a sender profile in Marketing Cloud Engagement to control who emails are sent from. By default, Distributed Marketing messages are sent on behalf of the running, or logged in, user. To allow people to send on behalf of other team members, use custom Distributed Marketing personalization interactions and update this sender profile to reference that data.
- **[Create Profile Attribute Mappings](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_create_profile_attribute_maps.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    When you use Distributed Marketing content blocks, users can automatically customize emails and preview those modifications within their editing experience. If you also use the additional data included in Distributed Marketing sends for email personalization, you must include that data as a profile attribute to preview content. For example, add ‘greeting’ as a profile attribute to allow your users to modify how they address email recipients, and preview those modifications.
- **[Manage Replies to Distributed Marketing Emails](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_manage_email_replies.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Most messages sent through Distributed Marketing don’t warrant a reply from the recipient or have specific calls to action embedded in the message. But sometimes recipients reply to messages sent through Distributed Marketing. Review the following information to understand how Distributed Marketing works with reply mail management and Sender Authentication Packages (SAP).

#### See Also

- [Campaign Messages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_add_campaign_messages_component.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Campaign messages let your business users send single or multi-touch engagements to Contacts, Leads, and Person Accounts at scale from the Salesforce Campaign object.")
- [Quick Send Messages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_set_up_quick_send.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Quick Send messages enable your business users to rapidly send a single, personalized Marketing Cloud Engagement email or SMS message to contacts, leads, and person accounts from throughout the Salesforce platform.")
- [Enable Email Personalization with Distributed Marketing Content Blocks](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_use_content_blocks.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use Distributed Marketing Content Blocks in Marketing Cloud Engagement to create sections of content for Distributed Marketing business users to personalize.")
- [Enhance Distributed Marketing](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_enhance_distributed_marketing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Enhance Distributed Marketing functionality to fit your company’s needs. To extend the message personalization flow, create custom personalization interactions. Extend the Distributed Marketing payload to include more data for journey decisions, content personalization, and more.")
- [Manage Settings](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_manage_settings.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Distributed Marketing allows you to enhance your CRM with Marketing Cloud Engagement content to send relevant, on-brand content at every touchpoint. With administrator access, typically granted to marketers, connect a Marketing Cloud Engagement journey to a campaign, enable Quick Send, and customize Distributed Marketing to fit your needs.")