Dashboard

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Active Subscribers
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Pending Letters
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Letters Sent

Intake address

Share this address with your missionary. Any letter they send here lands in the Letters tab for review. Only addresses on the approved-senders list (Site Config) can use it.

letters@…

Quick Actions

Letters

When the missionary wrote this letter. Shown in the archive.

Subscribers

Map Pins

Pins appear on the public map. The most recent pin shows in blue.

Site Config

JPEG, PNG, or GIF. Oversized images are resized to 800px automatically. You can also paste a URL:

Incoming mail & replies

Subscribers who reply to the list are told to write here instead. Also used as the default Reply-To for outbound letters.

When a subscriber clicks Reply, their message will go here.

Only mail from these addresses to letters@… will reach the subscriber list. Anyone else gets a polite bounce-back.

External links (optional)

Shown on the public site as a list — photo album, Instagram, donation page, whatever you want to share. Leave blank to hide.

Domain Setup

A custom domain gives this missionary their own web address (for example, theirname.com) and their own email intake address. Setting it up is three small pieces of DNS work at your domain registrar, guided step-by-step below. You can skip all of this and use the path URL shown on the dashboard — the custom domain is purely for polish.

Custom domain

The bare hostname for this missionary — no https://, no trailing slash. Changing this resets the DNS setup below, so you'll need to re-register each section.

1. Public website

Point (no customDomain set) at the web host so visitors see the missionary's site when they type the domain in a browser. Click below to register; we'll show you the DNS records to paste at your registrar.

2. Outbound email

Prove you own (no customDomain set) so welcome emails, letter broadcasts, and bounce-backs all get delivered from letters@…. Skip this and outbound mail simply won't send.

3. Inbound email

Letters emailed to letters@… arrive in the Letters tab for review. Click enable and we'll register the domain; you just add the DNS records to your registrar.

Step B — MX record (so mail actually routes through SendGrid)

Click any cell to copy. Important: if your registrar added default MX records for a built-in email-forwarding service, remove those first — this MX must be the only one, or mail will bounce.

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