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description: Before sending your email, preview it as a specific prospect, and then test send it to troubleshoot personalization issues. You can send a test email to a test list or to individual email addresses. Test emails don’t include merge field data.
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# Preview and Test Emails

Before sending your email, preview it as a specific prospect, and then test send it to troubleshoot personalization issues. You can send a test email to a test list or to individual email addresses. Test emails don’t include merge field data.

### 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>any Account Engagement Edition</span> with Salesforce <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small permission">
        <colgroup>
          <col style="width:50%">
          <col style="width:50%">
        </colgroup>
        <thead class="slds-text-title_caps ">
          <tr class="">
            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d23356e69">User Permissions
              Needed</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d23356e69 ">To preview an email:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d23356e69 ">
              <p>Manage Email Content </p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p><span>Account Engagement Administrator or Marketing
                  role</span>
              </p>
              <p>OR</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Custom user role in <span>Account Engagement</span> that includes
                View on Prospects</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d23356e69 ">To send a test email:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d23356e69 ">
              <p>Manage Email Content </p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p><span>Account Engagement Administrator or Marketing
                  role</span>
              </p>
              <p>OR</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">A custom user role in <span>Account Engagement</span> that includes
                Create/Edit and Send to List on Email, View on Campaign, and View on Segmentation
                Lists</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>

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Note For content created using the new email experience, see [Create an Email in Marketing Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_content_email_create.htm&language=en_US) to learn how to preview and test your emails. The test and preview options in the new email experience require Data 360.

Data from email sends to test lists is included in Engagement History and other reports. To exclude test list metrics, associate your test email with a test campaign.

1. On the Email Content tab, find the email content record for the email that you want to preview or test.
2. From the dropdown for the email, select **Preview As**, and then select a prospect.
3. From the dropdown for the email, select **Test**, add recipients, and click **Send Test Email**.
    
    You can add recipients by entering or searching for and selecting a list or an individual email address.

A test email is sent.

- If the current user’s sending domain is verified, the email is sent from that user email address.
- If the current user’s sending domain isn’t verified, the email is sent from test@\[yourverifieddomain\].
- If you have more than one verified sending domain, the first one in the domain management table is used.
- If you have no verified sending domain, the email isn’t sent.