Sending addresses

A From address is the identity your email is sent under: the name and address people see in their inbox, and the address they hit reply on. You need at least one before anything can go out.

They live in the Sending addresses card on Settings → Email sending, which appears once your domain is authenticated. Before you add one it reads “No sending address yet”.

Adding one

Click New sender:

Field	What to put
From name	The name in the inbox — your business, or a person. Acme, Sarah at Acme.
From email	Just the mailbox part — hello, hi, news. Your domain is added for you.
Reply-to (optional)	Where replies should go, if not the From address. Also just the mailbox part.
Set as default	Pre-selects this sender for new broadcasts and messages.

Tip

Use an address a person actually reads. If you add a no-reply@ address, Estage saves it and then warns you: no-reply addresses depress replies and engagement, and engagement is what your sending level is judged on.

Verification

Each sender carries a status:

Status	What it means
VERIFIED	Ready to send from.
PENDING	Waiting on confirmation.
FAILED	Verification didn’t complete — check the address and try again.

On an authenticated domain, addresses generally verify on their own. If yours doesn’t, a confirmation email is sent to it — Resend sends it again.

The refresh icon re-checks a sender’s real status with the mail provider. It’s available on every row, including verified ones: the stored status can drift, so a row reading VERIFIED is worth re-checking if sends from it are failing.

Managing senders

• Set default — the sender pre-selected everywhere. One at a time; it’s marked Default.
• Test — sends a real email so you can see how it arrives.
• Delete — removes the sender. Anything already scheduled with it should be re-pointed at another sender first.

Sending a test

Click Test on a verified sender. The dialog is prefilled with that sender’s own address — which always works — but you can send it anywhere.

Note

A test is a real send. It consumes your allowance and counts towards today’s limit like any other email. The button stays disabled until every required setup step is done.

How many do you need

One is enough to start. Add more only when the mail genuinely comes from different places — hello@ for marketing, support@ for service — because recipients read the From address as who is writing. Note that every address sits on the same authenticated domain and shares one reputation: a bad campaign from news@ hurts support@ too.