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Sending Servers for a Plan: Shared Pool or Bring-Your-Own

Every plan in AcelleMail answers one question before a customer on it can send a single email: whose sending server moves the message? You — the admin — decide that on the plan's Sending Servers tab. There are exactly two answers, and a cus...

Jul 4, 2026 9 min read Beginner Amazon Ses, Sendgrid, Mailgun 1 6

Migration & Comparison

ConvertKit (Kit) → AcelleMail Migration — Visual Walkthrough

Export subscribers from ConvertKit (now Kit), import into AcelleMail in 6 clicks. Visual walkthrough on both sides with API-driven option.

Jul 4, 2026 5 min read Beginner Acellemail 5 29

Migration & Comparison

Klaviyo → AcelleMail Migration — Visual Walkthrough

Export your Klaviyo profiles as CSV, import into AcelleMail via the 6-click wizard. Visual walkthrough plus power-user API path for large Klaviyo accounts.

Jul 4, 2026 5 min read Beginner Acellemail 4 19

Migration & Comparison

ActiveCampaign → AcelleMail Migration — Visual Walkthrough

Export contacts from ActiveCampaign, import into AcelleMail in 6 clicks. UI walkthrough plus optional API migration for large accounts.

Jul 4, 2026 4 min read Beginner Acellemail 6 28

Email Design & Content

Email Accessibility: WCAG Best Practices for Bulk Email

Roughly 15% of your subscribers have a permanent or situational disability that affects how they read email — screen reader users, low-vision readers, color-blind users, motor-impaired clickers, cognitive-load-sensitive readers. The Europea...

Jul 4, 2026 14 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 6

Developer Guide

AcelleMail Webhook Signature Verification and Replay Protection

When you receive a webhook from AcelleMail (or AcelleMail receives one from a third-party event source like Meta), the receiver has no built-in trust that the request came from where it claims. This guide walks the HMAC-SHA256 signature ver...

Jul 4, 2026 11 min read Advanced Acellemail 2 8

Email Infrastructure

Choosing the Queue Driver: Database vs Redis vs SQS for AcelleMail

AcelleMail ships with `QUEUE_CONNECTION=database` as the default — and that's the right choice for installations up to ~500k emails per day. Past that threshold, database-queue contention starts to dominate worker time, and switching to Red...

Jul 4, 2026 12 min read Advanced Acellemail 1 8

Best Practices

Subject Line Formulas That Consistently Work — The Testing Discipline

Stop guessing which formula will work. Test 2-3 per campaign + accumulate evidence. After 10-20 sends, you'll know YOUR audience's sweet spot. This guide is the testing discipline + result interpretation.

Jul 4, 2026 7 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 5

Best Practices

Email Body Structure — The Hook · Value · CTA Framework

A simple 3-part framework that scales from 50-word notes to 500-word deep-dives. Hook earns attention. Value delivers the promise. CTA gets the action. This guide walks each piece with examples and AcelleMail builder integration.

Jul 4, 2026 9 min read Beginner Acellemail 1 6

Best Practices

Writing Email for Skimmers — Structure That Survives 5-Second Reads

90% of recipients skim. They read for 5-10 seconds, scrolling fast, looking for the answer. Most emails are written for the 10% who read carefully — they fail with the skimmer majority. This guide is the skimmer-first structure.

Jul 4, 2026 7 min read Beginner Acellemail 1 6

Best Practices

Re-Engagement Copy That Doesn't Feel Desperate

Subscribers go quiet. Most senders panic — sending escalating "we miss you!!!" emails. The truth: desperate-feeling re-engagement fails 5× more than honest, confident re-engagement. This guide is the calm-and-confident pattern.

Jul 4, 2026 8 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 5

Best Practices

AI-Assisted Email Copy — Without Sounding Like AI

AI tools can draft your first version 10× faster. They can also make your copy read like a textbook. This guide is the practical pattern: use AI for the draft, then surgically rewrite for your voice. With before/after examples.

Jul 4, 2026 8 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 5

Troubleshooting

My Campaign Is Stuck in "Sending" — What to Check

A campaign that still shows "Sending" hours after you hit send. Walk through the three UI signals that tell you what's actually happening — then the two-click fix that resolves it for most teams.

Jul 4, 2026 5 min read Beginner Acellemail 5 23

Troubleshooting

Decoding Bounce Messages — Read the Tracking Log Like a Pro

Hard bounces, soft bounces, deferred — what AcelleMail's bounce log is actually telling you, and which bounces you can ignore vs. which need action. Read the UI first, dive into the SMTP codes only when needed.

Jul 4, 2026 5 min read Beginner Acellemail 4 15

Troubleshooting

My Emails Are Landing in Spam — UI-First Diagnostic

Spam-folder placement happens for measurable reasons. Walk the Insights page, the Sending Server config, and the Test diagnostic — three UI checks isolate the cause before anyone has to look at headers.

Jul 4, 2026 6 min read Intermediate Acellemail 5 28

Migration & Comparison

MailerLite → AcelleMail Migration — Visual Walkthrough

Export subscribers from MailerLite, import into AcelleMail in 6 clicks. Visual walkthrough on both sides with API-driven option for large lists.

Jul 4, 2026 4 min read Beginner Acellemail 5 24

Troubleshooting

My Automation Isn't Triggering — How to Diagnose from the UI

A welcome series or drip that won't fire on new subscribers. The Automations dashboard shows you whether the workflow is active, what trigger it's listening for, and which subscribers are eligible — three checks resolve most cases.

Jul 4, 2026 5 min read Beginner Acellemail 6 25

Migration & Comparison

Brevo (Sendinblue) → AcelleMail Migration — Visual Walkthrough

Export contacts from Brevo, upload to AcelleMail in 6 clicks. UI walkthrough on both sides plus optional API-driven migration for large lists.

Jul 4, 2026 4 min read Beginner Acellemail 3 12

Sending & Deliverability

Gmail Postmaster Tools Walkthrough — IP Reputation for AcelleMail Senders

Google Postmaster Tools is free. It shows your Gmail-side spam rate, IP reputation, domain reputation, and authentication pass rates. This guide walks the signup, the daily-check routine, and how to wire findings back into AcelleMail.

Jul 4, 2026 6 min read Intermediate Acellemail 3 13

Sending & Deliverability

Microsoft SNDS Walkthrough — Outlook IP Reputation in AcelleMail Context

Microsoft's Smart Network Data Services (SNDS) shows per-IP reputation for outlook.com / hotmail.com / live.com. This guide walks the SNDS signup, wiring AcelleMail's sending IPs in, and daily-checking the panel.

Jul 4, 2026 7 min read Intermediate Acellemail 2 13

Sending & Deliverability

Amazon SES Sending Limits — Cookbook for AcelleMail Operators

SES starts at 200/day sandbox, scales to 50k+/day in production, $0.10 per 1,000 emails. This guide is the practical cookbook: how to grow from sandbox to scale, region-by-region orchestration, what AcelleMail does at each tier.

Jul 4, 2026 8 min read Intermediate Acellemail 3 14

Sending & Deliverability

Multi-Server Rotation in AcelleMail — How the Dispatcher Picks

Once you have 2+ sending servers, the AcelleMail dispatcher distributes per-message across them. This guide explains the rotation logic, how to verify it in the admin pool, and how to override for deterministic routing.

Jul 4, 2026 6 min read Intermediate Acellemail 3 13

Sending & Deliverability

Deliverability Incident Runbook — From Alert to Recovery in AcelleMail

Bounce rate spiked. Complaint volume jumped. A campaign is stuck on Sending. This is the step-by-step runbook for when something breaks — every check runs from the dashboard, in the order that resolves most incidents fastest.

Jul 4, 2026 8 min read Intermediate Acellemail 2 12

DNS & Domain Setup

Rotating Your DKIM Key in AcelleMail — How to Publish a Fresh Key

AcelleMail has no in-app "rotate key" button — a sending domain's DKIM keypair is fixed at creation. To rotate, you delete the domain and re-add it (which generates a fresh key), publish the new DKIM record at your DNS host, then click Veri...

Jul 4, 2026 8 min read Advanced Acellemail 3 19

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