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description: Use test lists to send your team the email that you’re working on before sending it to prospects. You can see how your merge fields populate and ensure that links are rewritten properly.
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# Create an Email Test List

Use test lists to send your team the email that you’re working on before sending it to prospects. You can see how your merge fields populate and ensure that links are rewritten properly.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <span>All Account Engagement Editions</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d32467e56">User Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d32467e56 ">To create and send to email test lists:</td>

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              <span>Account Engagement Administrator or Marketing
                role</span>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d32467e56 ">To create test prospects from the user table:</td>

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              <span>Account Engagement Administrator role</span>
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1. Open the Lists page.
    - In Account Engagement, select **Marketing** | **Segmentation** | **Lists**.
    - In the Lightning app, select **Prospects**, and then **Segmentation** | **Segmentation Lists**.
2. Click **Add List**.
3. Complete the required fields, and select **Email Test List**.
    
    We recommend you name your list something obvious such as “Internal Test List.”
4. Click **Create List**.
5. Open the Users page. Select **Admin** (**Account Engagement Settings** in the Lightning app), and then **User Management** | **Users**.
6. Select the users for your test list.
    
    You can include up to 100 recipients in a test list, however you can’t add regular prospects to a test list. Account Engagement creates a test prospect for each user that you add to the test list.
7. From the table action dropdown menu, select **Create prospect and add to test list**.
8. In the dropdown menu that appears, select a test list and click **Go**.

After you create a test list, you can send to it from the Testing tab of the classic email builder.