Technical documentation for how to mask your email

E-mail masking explained

 

Below are the technical details on how to mask your email domain so that emails sent to your entrants originate from your domain.

BeeLiked currently chooses Mailchimp / Mandrill as its email partner. Therefore masking your email address for automated emails follows the settings laid out in the following article: 

Below is a summary of the information. 

 

1. General Rules

Here are a couple of rules to be aware of:

• Email must come from a domain you own and control. To set up the authentication, you will need access to the domain records. 

• You must decide if the email address will be monitored. If not, we suggest you use noreply@yourdomain.com as the address.

• In order to set up and verify the domain masking BeeLiked will  either:

  • need to send an email to you at the email address of the domain you use. So you must have a monitored email @yourdomain.com where we can send this email.

  • or a custom TXT record can be generated for you that can be added to your domain records.

2. Request Email Activation

When contacting the support team, please inform us which email address you would like your emails to come from. You must have full access to the settings for the domain you choose.

Once the email has been added to the BeeLiked system, we will be able to give you the details for masking your email domain. 

3. Update your domain's records

 

DKIM

Create two CNAME records: one with the name mte1._domainkey.yourdomain.com with the value dkim1.mandrillapp.com, and another with the name mte2._domainkey.yourdomain.com and the value dkim2.mandrillapp.com 

 

DMARC

Create and save a TXT record in your DNS with the name of _dmarc.yourdomain.com and a value of v=DMARC1; p=none

Replace yourdomain.com with the domain you're setting up. Some domain hosts automatically add yourdomain.com after the initial value—contact your domain provider for any specifics.

 

4. BeeLiked finalize setup

After setting your DNS records, please contact BeeLiked Support to let us know. We need to complete the verification and permission for your account to use this domain.

To do this, we have two options:

a) We can trigger a system email to an email at your chosen domain, so you must be able to receive emails at a monitored inbox at this domain. You will need to be able to access this email and forward it immediately back to us at support@beeliked.com (and let us know you have done this). 

b) we can generate a unique text record for you to add to your domain records.

 

5. Edit and configure your emails

With your settings enabled, you will now see the option to add auto emails (set up in the Builder) to each of your promotions. 

a) You must configure the email from the address so it comes from your newly set up email: 

b) You can now write your email. If you have an HTML template, you can view the source and paste that in for a more professional layout. 

c) Remember you can use the Shortcodes/placeholder options to populate the contents of your email dynamically.

 

For example:

First Name 

{% raw %}

{{entrantField('first-name')}}

 

Insert the last coupon issued ( coupon code must be present on the result message)

{{last_coupon}}

 

Complete result message

{{outcome_message_html}}

 

 

Finally, remember to switch the email to On.