Getting Started
By Maildesk Team ·
Getting Started with Maildesk
Create your account, complete the onboarding wizard, and find your way around the Maildesk dashboard.
Welcome to Maildesk! This guide walks you through your first session — from signing up to knowing exactly where everything lives.
Create your account
- Go to app.maildesk.io/auth/register and sign up with your email and a password, or use Sign in with Google.
- Check your inbox for a verification email and click the link inside. Some actions — like adding a sending domain — require a verified email address, so it’s worth doing this right away.
Complete the onboarding wizard
After signing up, Maildesk walks you through a short four-step setup. You can skip it and come back later, but completing it now saves time.
Step 1 — Tell us about your business
Fill in your Business Name, pick your Industry (SaaS, E-commerce, Agency, Education, Real Estate, or Other), and write a short Business Description. Two sentences is enough — Maildesk uses this to help personalize your tone of voice.
Step 2 — Choose your brand’s voice
Pick the tone that best matches how you write: Professional, Friendly, Playful, or Minimalist.
Step 3 — Connect your domain
This is the most important step. Enter:
- Domain Name — the domain you’ll send from, e.g.
example.com - Sending Name — the name recipients see in their inbox
- Sending Email Address — just the part before the @, e.g.
reginald(your domain is appended automatically) - Tracking Subdomain — e.g.
links, used for open and click tracking
Step 4 — Done!
The completion screen shows your next steps — most importantly, adding your DNS records. DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to propagate, so start early. Follow the Connect your sending domain guide to finish this.
Find your way around
The main navigation bar has everything:
| Section | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Subscriber growth charts and totals at a glance |
| Subscribers | Your contact list — import, search, filter, and edit contacts |
| Campaigns | One-off email broadcasts and your saved templates |
| Automations | Email Sequences, Automations, and Tags (in the dropdown) |
| Forms | Embeddable signup forms with styling and analytics |
| Settings | Domain, billing, workspace members, social links, API keys, and webhooks |
What to do next
- Connect and verify your sending domain — you can’t send email until this is done.
- Import your subscribers — bring your list over from a CSV.
- Send your first campaign — put it all together.
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