--- schema_version: "1" id: d56649c0add96a97d1a2fad86bb66a218d805548d3c71161bdf8ec6863380f3d title: Send an Email collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/mktg/264-0-0/mc_es_send_email.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_send_email.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 4992c81559490d1345a32a9baf8ddf02f50fd603c079f3e4b25540ba764cc8ed description: Send an email from Email Studio using the most applicable method for your use case. products: - Marketing - Marketing Cloud Engagement release: "264" --- # Send an Email Send an email from Email Studio using the most applicable method for your use case. | Sending Method | Description | | --- | --- | | [Send Flow](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_send_flow.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Send Flow replaces Guided Send for Content Builder emails in Email Studio. Send Flow allows you to see what you are sending to reduce errors, and consolidates all major sending functionality into a simple, highly visual interface.") | Guides you through the necessary steps to send your email. | | [Subscriber Preview and Test Send](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_subscriber_preview_test_send.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Subscriber Preview and Test in Email Studio is a rendering of an email as viewed by a recipient. After the initial subscriber preview, consider proceeding through the rest of the recipients to see previews for each subscriber. The preview feature doesn’t display in a particular operating system or email client.") | Provides a rendering of an email as a recipient sees it. After the initial subscriber preview, you can proceed through the rest of the recipients to see previews for each subscriber and send a test. | | [Perform Send Preview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_send_preview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Perform a send preview in Email Studio to generate a preview of the email and send a test.") | Provides a rendering of an email as a recipient sees it. After the initial preview, you can proceed through the rest of the recipients on the list to see the preview for each one. | | [Perform a Simple Send](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_perform_simple_send.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Follow these steps to perform a simple send in Email Studio.") | Send an email quickly with limited configuration options. | | [User-Initiated Email Messages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_email_messages.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use Email Studio email message interactions, also referred to as send definitions, to determine how an email send occurs.") | Send an email as part of an Automation Studio automation. | | [Triggered Emails in Email Studio](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_triggered_emails.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use triggered emails in Email Studio to respond to email replies and to send email list opt-in confirmation messages. To use triggered emails for other needs, you must implement the Email Studio app and SOAP API. This guide covers the tools in the application interface.") | Sends an email in response to a subscriber performing an action. | - **[Do Not Track Email Opens and Clicks](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_do_not_track_email_opens_and_clicks.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** At send time, in accounts without Do Not Track, Marketing Cloud Engagement tracking IDs are applied while rendering subscriber messages. The Do Not Track functionality adds a send-time check that honors a subscriber’s preference. For subscribers who don’t want to be tracked, the check suppresses Engagement tracking IDs from being applied to the rendered message. So, open and click events aren’t known. - **[Send Flow](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_send_flow.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Send Flow replaces Guided Send for Content Builder emails in Email Studio. Send Flow allows you to see what you are sending to reduce errors, and consolidates all major sending functionality into a simple, highly visual interface. - **[Use Subscriber Preview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_use_subscriber_preview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** To preview a microsite landing page as a subscriber in Email Studio, open the landing page and use Subscriber Preview. - **[Subscriber Preview and Test Send](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_subscriber_preview_test_send.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Subscriber Preview and Test in Email Studio is a rendering of an email as viewed by a recipient. After the initial subscriber preview, consider proceeding through the rest of the recipients to see previews for each subscriber. The preview feature doesn’t display in a particular operating system or email client. - **[Perform a Simple Send](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_perform_simple_send.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Follow these steps to perform a simple send in Email Studio. - **[Perform Send Preview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_send_preview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Perform a send preview in Email Studio to generate a preview of the email and send a test. - **[Email Delivery Checklist](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_email_delivery_checklist.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Before you send an email in Email Studio, follow this checklist to ensure that the email meets your standards before it arrives in subscribers' inbox. - **[Subscriber De-Duplication on Sends](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_deduplication.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** De-duplication is a process Email Studio uses to remove duplicate instances of the same subscriber on a send. Our system does removal either automatically or requires configuration from the user, depending on the audience type used in the sent. - **[Configure Send Throttling](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_configure_send_throttling.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** To prevent server crashes due to an influx of incoming website traffic, you can reduce the number of email recipients who click incoming links by turning on send throttling. Send throttling controls the approximate number of emails that are sent over time, based on values that you set. - **[Pending Sends and Past Sends](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_es_pending_past_sends.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Use Pending Sends in Email Studio to view scheduled and in-progress email sends. Use Past Sends to view email send history.