I wanted to flag an issue with the SendGrid integration inside Decile that is creating a real testing and reliability problem for newsletters.
Right now, when I use “Send test email” in Decile, the message is not actually sent through SendGrid’s infrastructure. It appears to be sent through my Gmail instead.
That means the test email does not generate the same SendGrid click tracking URLs, branded link domain redirects, or open tracking that will be used in the real send.
As a result, I cannot validate:
As a result, I cannot validate:
- branded link routing (CNAME / DNS correctness)
- click tracking redirects
- SSL / HTTPS behavior
- SendGrid link branding behavior
- open tracking behavior
The only way to test properly today is to publish the newsletter and send it to a real recipient, confirm the links work, and then create an entirely new newsletter to send the final version.
This is a pretty painful workflow, and it makes it easy to accidentally ship a newsletter with broken tracking links.
Request: please update the “Send test email” function so the test send is delivered through SendGrid (same sending path, same tracking link rewriting, same DNS routing) rather than through Gmail.
This would let us safely validate tracking links and DNS before sending to our full database.
Thanks,
Brian
Brian
