Send your first email

By the end of this guide you’ll have an email qube running on one of your domains, with its SPF, DKIM and DMARC records published in DNS for you, and you’ll have sent a real email from the dashboard and watched it arrive.

1. Add the email qube

   From your project dashboard, click Add qube and pick Email. Choose the domain you want to send from. The qube needs DNS to be managed by CloudQube so it can publish the SPF/DKIM/DMARC records itself.

2. Wait for setup to finish

   The qube publishes the DNS records and verifies them. Typically this takes a few minutes. While verification is pending, sending is blocked and the composer tells you the domain is still being set up; once it clears, you’re ready to send.

3. Compose and send

   Open the email qube and click Compose. Fill in a recipient and a subject (both are required), write your message, and hit Send. You get 15 seconds to undo before the email goes out.

4. Check your inbox

   The email arrives within seconds. If it lands in spam, see Email going to spam.

Not at your desk when it should go out?

You can schedule an email up to 30 days ahead with Send later. See Compose and schedule email.

Receiving email

The same qube also receives email on your domain: incoming messages appear in the inbox on the qube’s dashboard, and you can reply from there.

Webmail only

You read your mail in the browser, on the qube’s dashboard. There is no IMAP or POP access, so you can’t connect Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird or the Gmail app, on your computer or your phone, to a mailbox here.

This matters most if you are moving from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, where everyone is used to reading mail in a desktop or mobile client. Your app can still read and send mail through the qube’s tools and webhooks, and you can export your inbox as a standard mbox file at any time from Export inbox on the email qube.

What happens to bounces

Bounces are tracked automatically and added to your suppression list so you don’t keep sending to dead addresses. See Handle bounces.