What is AWS?
What is Amazon SES?
What is an AWS Region?
Pricing plans of Amazon SES
What is Amazon SNS?
Why do I need Amazon SNS?
Connecting AWS account with MailBluster
Can I use MailBluster without an AWS account?
Do I need to pay Amazon to create AWS Account?
Do I need to have a website for my AWS Account?
Do I need to pay an additional cost to AWS for using Amazon SES?
How to choose AWS Region for MailBluster?
How to move out of Amazon SES Sandbox?
Can I use my MailBluster Account when my AWS Account is in sandbox?
What is Amazon SES Sandbox and why does my account have sandbox access?
What if I don’t get approval from Amazon SES after requesting to move out of the sandbox?
I’m getting the error ‘Unable to connect with Amazon SES using your AWS account’
How to verify a domain in Amazon SES?
How to verify an email address in Amazon SES?
How to verify Sender Domain from MailBluster?
How to verify Sender Email Address from MailBluster?
What is a Sender Identity?
What is a Custom Domain?
How to set Custom MAIL FROM Domain in AWS?
Why set Custom MAIL FROM Domain in Amazon SES?
How to prevent Gmail from showing ‘via amazonses.com’?
Why my AWS Account has been “Paused”?
How to resolve AWS Account “Pause” issue?
Cloudflare configuration is not working with HTTPS?
How can I achieve positive sender reputation if I switch to a new domain?
I am getting this error: Unable to find the permission of ‘AmazonSESFullAccess’.
I am getting this error: Unable to find the permission of ‘AmazonSNSFullAccess’.
Gmail is still not showing the one-click unsubscribe (list-unsubscribe header) in my emails?
What is a Campaign?
How to edit a Campaign?
How to rename a campaign?
How to duplicate a campaign?
How to schedule a campaign in MailBluster?
How to cancel a scheduled campaign?
Changing the width of campaign email
Using query string in campaign
Removing MailBluster branding
What is double opt-in?
How can I set-up Double Opt-In for my campaign?
Difference between Standard Campaigns and Automation Campaigns
Is there a way to sent email in plain text using MailBluster?
How to create and send an email campaign?
How to send Personalized Email from MailBluster?
How to compose email using Drag and Drop Editor?
How can we share the email campaign from MailBluster?
How to set Unsubscribe URL using Drag and Drop editor?
How to set Unsubscribe URL using HTML editor?
How to set Unsubscribe URL using WYSIWYG Editor?
Why my email campaign is showing “outdated”?
Why is my campaign still in the “waiting” status?
Can I store images in MailBluster?
What is the maximum file size of an image file that can be used in an email campaign?
Why does the text look okay in the editor, but in the campaign, it becomes broken?
How to use UTM for tracking in MailBluster using Google Analytics?
If I exceed my sending limit, will my campaign continue tomorrow automatically?
How do you resolve “Content is invalid, merge tag or block tag contains error”?
How to resolve “AWS connection is invalid” under the “Sender email address?”
Is the short preheader text I use in my email campaign getting automatically populated?
I have set up my URL but in the test mail, it is showing 404 error and redirecting it to different URL
How to use default Merge Tag in email campaign if the recipients do not have the data (First Name, Last Name, Full Name, etc)?

Create Brand in MailBluster

Last update: March 11, 2024

Please navigate to your username > My brands.

Clicking on My brands

Then click on Create Brand

Clicking on Create brand

And, fill up the details of the new Brand.

Filling up the details of the new Brand

Brand name can be the name of your organization or a name of a company or a product brand.

Brand favicon is simply a logo which you can set for your brand. Recommended size for the favicon is 512 pixels (both Length x Width).

Sender name is the name that will show on the email.

Sender email address is the email address that will show in ‘Send from: ’ on the email when recipient receives. This sender email address is also the email address which needs to be verified in Amazon SES first.

Reply to email address is the Email address you have set so that your customers will be able to send reply to this address. Reply to email address is the Email address you have set so that your customers will be able to send reply to this address.

Time Zone needs to be set according to your current location time zone.

Finally click Create brand and your brand will be created.


Delete Brand from MailBluster

Last update: March 18, 2024

If you want to remove your MailBluster Brand, contact our Support Center. Tell us the Brand name or Brand domain (if you have duplicate brands) you want to delete from your MailBluster account. Do remember, deleting it means everything linked to that brand—like leads, campaigns, reports, invoices, cards, and AWS credentials—will also be gone. Once it’s deleted, we can’t bring back the Brand’s data.

You can obtain Brand name and domain from your MailBluster settings as shown below:

Brand name and Brand domain are required for Brand deletion

How many Brands can be created under one MailBluster Account?

Last update: March 18, 2024

You can create unlimited number of Brands under one MailBluster Account free of any charges. There are no restrictions and you can connect multiple Brands to just one or same AWS Account.

The following is a screenshare showing multiple Brands connected to one AWS Account.

Selecting Brands in MailBluster

How can you invite others to use your Brand in MailBluster?

Last update: March 18, 2024

MailBluster has three predefined roles: admin, manager, and viewer. You can assign users to one of these roles. But you can’t change the role’s permissions or create a new role.

To invite a new user to your brand, go to your Brand > Settings > Users and click Invite New User.

Clicking Invite New User

Enter the Email address, set the User role, and your Message (optional). Then click Send invitation.

Entering the Email address, setting the User role, and Message (optional). Then clicking Send invitation

An invitation email will be sent to the user. You can also Cancel invitation of the user or Resend invitation to the user again.

You can also Cancel invitation of the user or Resend invitation to the user again

From user end, they will receive an email like this. They need to click Join Brand.

Clicking Join Brand in the Invitation email

Once clicked, they will forwarded to the Brand selection menu as shown below. They need to click on the Brand from which they were invited. After clicking the brand they will be able to access the Brand and its features.

Selecting the invited Brand

How many types of users can be added to a specific brand?

Last update: March 18, 2024

MailBluster has three predefined user roles or types of users: Viewer, Manager and Admin. You can assign any user to one of these roles by inviting them to your Brand.

Viewer: This type of user can only view reports

Manager: This type of user has full access. But they will not be able to view Billing, AWS Settings, User Management, Update/Delete Brand and Export Leads from MailBluster.

Admin: This type of user has full privileges

Please note: an invited user cannot change permissions of their roles if they are not the owner of the Brand

What is a Brand in MailBluster, and can I use the same email ID for multiple brands?

Last update: March 18, 2024

Each Brand in MailBluster represents a unique business or organization. So, if you have multiple Brands in MailBluster and want to store the same leads in each brand, then you can do that. It will not be considered a duplicate. Duplicate leads is only considered when you try to save same lead (email id) twice in each brand.

What to do if the default Unsubscribe link and the default View in browser link are both being flagged as phishing sites?

Last update: March 18, 2024

MailBluster uses mbmai1.com to generate the web version, subscribe, and unsubscribe URLs. As this domain is used by default for most MailBluster customers, its reputation has significantly diminished, affecting all email campaigns. As everyone knows email marketing is a tool that many scammers, and spammers use a lot and MailBluster is also used for that. MailBluster tries to prevent them, but it’s not possible to block them 100%. The result is a low reputation of the unsubscribe domain and leading to issues like the default “Unsubscribed link” page not opening.

To resolve this issue, you need to change the default auto-generated URL from MailBluster. To change the default auto-generated URL, navigate to the Settings > Custom URL page and set the Action URL. Additionally, ensure you create a simple CNAME record in your domain’s DNS configuration. Once the Action URL is set, MailBluster will use it instead of the default one. For instance, your Action URL could be: http://email.example.com where http://example.com is your domain.

If you’re not using Cloudflare for DNS, you must use the HTTP protocol for your Action URL. The Action URL in MailBluster will update both the web version and the Unsubscribe URL in your email campaign, resolving the issue.

After setting the Action URL in MailBluster, ensure it’s functional before sending any email campaigns. You can test this by accessing the Action URL from your web browser.

How to set Action URL for your Brand in MailBluster?

Last update: March 14, 2024

When MailBluster adds subscribe URL to your double opt-in email, unsubscribe URL and web version URL to your campaign email, it adds a link of its own domain. The default URL is https://andromeda.mbmail1.com.

You need to set the Action URL if you want to change the default URL and replace it with your own. It accepts a domain/subdomain. For example, you can set it to http://subdomain.domain.com, and MailBluster will use this domain as an Action URL. You can set it from the Brand > Settings > Custom URL tab of MailBluster.

Setting up Action URL

If the DNS of your website is not Cloudflare, you must use HTTP protocol for your Action URL.

You also need to set a CNAME record that points to MailBluster’s domain custom.mbmail1.com. You will be instructed accordingly on the process like the one shown below:

Setting up CNAME record using Name and Value/Target for the Action URL DNS records

After setting the Action URL, you can test the behavior by sending test emails to yourself.

If you use Cloudflare for your domain then use the following settings:

Using HTTP in Action URL:

  1. Set http://subdomain.domain.com as Action URL on MailBluster
  2. Create a new CNAME record subdomain.domain.com on Cloudflare that points to custom.mbmail1.com.
  3. Disable Cloudflare proxy for this record.
  4. It might take some time to propagate the record. You can try visiting http://subdomain.domain.com in your web browser to check if it’s propagated. If propagated, a page not found page of MailBluster should get displayed.
  5. Once DNS propagation is done (maximum 48 hours), send a test email and check the web version and unsubscribe links.

Using HTTPS in Action URL:

  1. Set https://subdomain.domain.com as Action URL on MailBluster
  2. Create a new CNAME record https://subdomain.domain.com on Cloudflare that points to custom.mbmail1.com.
  3. Enable Cloudflare proxy for this record.
  4. It might take some time to propagate the record. You can try visiting https://subdomain.domain.com in browser to check if it’s propagated. If propagated, a page not found page of MailBluster should get displayed.
  5. Once DNS propagation is done (maximum 48 hours), send a test email and check the web version and unsubscribe links.

Both cases will work if you use Cloudflare for your domain.

If your https is still not active yet in your domain, then you need to use http in Action URL instead.

Once you set the Action URL, please make sure it’s working before sending your next campaign. You can test this by simply sending a test email campaign to yourself and check the behaviour. If you see this then you are good to go:

Action URL Result

How to set Unsubscribe Redirection URL for your Brand in MailBluster?

Last update: March 18, 2024

When you set the Unsubscribe redirection URL from Settings > Custom URL, it will redirect the receiver to MailBluster default domain after clicking the unsubscribe from your email content, and then after confirming the  Yes, unsubscribe button, it redirects you to the domain you set for Unsubscribe Redirection URL.

Here is an example on how to set Unsubscribe redirection URL:

Click on Settings and then on Custom URL. Then place the redirection URL link under Unsubscribe redirection URL

Here is an example of an Unsubscribe Redirection URL: https://mailbluster.com/unsubscribed.php?email=%e

Here the Lead email address is passed by using the query parameter email=%e

So, when the user clicks Unsubscribe as shown here:

Click on Unsubscribe to unsubscribe from the Mailing List

It will redirect to the page you have set earlier with the email address as shown below:

Email address is shown after redirecting to unsubscribe redirection URL

What to do if my Domain Verification Status fails in MailBluster?

Last update: March 14, 2024

If the Domain Verification Status fails, then setting up DNS record after that will have no impact because Amazon SES does not check the records. You need to delete the domain from @‌Senders and then add the domain again, then it will retry.

Deleting the domain whose domain verification status is showing Failed

After deleting the sender domain, add the sender domain again by following this guide:

Why HTTPS protocol is not working for my Action URL?

Last update: March 18, 2024

The domain custom.mbmail1.com is hosted on an AWS EC2 server. Since it’s not routed through Cloudflare, its IP directly connects to an AWS server. This server has only two ports accessible: port 22 for SSH and port 80 for HTTP. Notably, it lacks port 443, which is essential for HTTPS connections. Consequently, the domain is unable to support the HTTPS protocol. This is a common reason why HTTPS protocol may not work for an Action URL hosted on such a server.