Testing a Message

You can test a message in one or both of two ways:

• Quick Test

Use this option when editing content to send the message to specific email addresses.

If the message body contains mail merge tags, enhancers, or conditional content, you can also send multiple messages using random test data from your list. You might want to do this, for example, to see how your mail merge fields and dynamic content will appear to different recipients.

Lyris will not send the test messages to your contacts, it will simply use the contact's profile data and send the messages to the addresses you specify. 
For example...You send three test messages to john@mail.com. Lyris will insert data from any three contacts in your list and send all three messages to john@mail.com.

• Proof Message

Use this option when testing the message to send the message to your proof contacts. This option gives a more accurate result than a Quick Test because it uses your proof recipients' actual data instead of random test data.
For example...You designated john@mail.com and amy@mail.com as proof contacts. When you send the proof message to both of these contacts, Lyris will send the message to john@mail.com using his profile data, and another one to amy@mail.com using her profile data.

For more information about proof contacts, see About Proof Contacts.

You can also generate EmailAdvisor reports, which provide information about message deliverability.

To open the Test & Proof page

Use the Test & Proof page to send proof messages and generate Email Test reports.

To open the Test & Proof page, do one of the following:

• At the top of any message creation page, click 3. Test & Proof.
• On the Edit Message page, click .

What do you want to do?

Send a Quick Test

Send a Proof Message

Generate Email Test reports

View Email Test reports

To send a Quick Test  

1. Make sure that you:

• Selected the message recipients
• Filled in the From, From Email, Subject fields
• Created the Text version of the message

2. On the Edit Message page, click .

The Recipient(s) dialog opens.

1. 3. In the Recipient(s) dialog, type the addresses to which you want to send the test message, separated by commas.

4. Optionally, to send test messages using random data from your list, select the Send checkbox and specify the number of test messages to send.

Note: This option is available only if the message body contains mail merge tags, enhancers, or conditional content.

What's this? You might want to use random data to see how your mail merge fields and dynamic content will appear to different recipients. Lyris will not send the test messages to your contacts, it will simply use your contacts' profile data and send the messages to the addresses you specify. For example: you send three Quick Test messages to john@lyris.com. Lyris will insert data from any three contacts in your list and send all three messages to john@lyris.com.

5. Click .

The test messages are sent to the addresses you specify in the Recipient(s) dialog.

To send a proof message

1. On the Test & Proof page, select the Send Proof tab.

The Proof Contacts list opens, showing all existing proof contacts.

2. To send the proof message to a contact who doesn't appear in the Proof Contacts list:

2a. Type the contact's email address in the Add Proof Contact field.

2b. Press Return.

Note: When you add a proof contact, that contact will be designated as a proof contact for all messages, not only the current message. For more information about proof contacts, see About Proof Contacts.

3. Do one of the following:

• To send the message to individual Proof Contacts, select the contact's checkbox.
• To send the message to all Proof Contacts, select the Proof Contacts checkbox.

4. Click .

The message is sent to the proof contacts you selected.

Generating and viewing Email Test reports

Note that Email Test reports can take a while to generate. You might want to continue with other tasks while the reports run.

To generate Email Test reports

1. On the Test & Proof page, select the Email Testing tab.

1. 2. Click .

Lyris begins to generate the reports.

Note that Email Test reports can take a while to generate. You might want to continue with other tasks while the reports run.

To view Email Test reports from the Test & Proof page

1. Select the Email Testing tab.

2. Click the report you want to see.

The links become enabled after the report is generated.

To view Email Test reports from any page

1. On the Navigation bar, click Email Marketing then Email Test Overview.

The Email Test Overview page opens.

2. Select the message you want from the table at the bottom of the page.

3. In the Available Reports section, click the report you want to see.

The report opens.

Next Step: Set message delivery

Click to proceed to the next step.