Add email sending domain name into SparkPost account
1. After SparkPost account confirmation, login to your SparkPost account.
2. Navigate to Account > Sending Domains
3. Add the domain name from which you want to send emails.
4. Click Add Domain button.
Verify domain name with DKIM and SPF records
5. Add SPF record at DNS of the added sending domain name.
6. Add DKIM record at DNS of the added sending domain name.
Note:Only 1 of the 4 verification methods is required per domain. SPF Text Record or DKIM Record is recommended for better deliverability.
Add abuse and postmaster emails to email sending domain (optional)
- It’s a good practice to add abuse@ and postmaster@ emails on your sending email domains. Add these emails and verify the same.
Add SparkPost account in Mailleader Delivery Server
8. Create API at your SparkPost account. Go to SparkPost Dashboard > Account > Api Keys > Click “New API Key” button.
9. Now on next screen, give “API Key Name” and under API Permissions, click “Select All”. You can leave “Allowed IPs field blank.
Finally, click “Add API Key” Button.
10. From next screen, copy the API key.
11. Now you are ready to use the domain name. From Mailleader Dashboard, go to Delivery Servers > Server Settings > Add SparkPost Web Api.
You can follow this SparkPost integration guide too:
On new screen add Name of the delivery server according to your convenience.
12. Add SparkPost API key from previous screen to Mailleader delivery server screen. Then, add “From Email”, “From Name” and finally, save the settings.
Validate Delivery Server in Mailleader account
13. Now you need to validate your server, add an email address, where you can receive validation email. Followed by this, receive the validation email, and click on validation link from the email.14. Confirm you have validated and activated the server in Mailleader Pro delivery server dashboard.
Confirm bounce and complaint files are setup properly
15. After validation of SparkPost delivery server successfully completes, you can check SparkPost webhooks and confirm, if Mailleader Pro bounce and complaint files are successfully added to your account.
For this inside your SparkPost account, go to, Account > Webhooks and check the webhooks of format app.Mailleader.in
To check the given webhooks inside Mailleader Pro, go to delivery server > edit the server > click on “Info” tab from the right corner of the screen.
In the new pop-up box, you will get the details about the webhooks and the Mailleader Pro links.
Disable Duplicate open and click Tracking
16. You need to disable tracking in your SparkPost account, otherwise your open and click rate will have duplicate value inside email campaign report.
Goto Account > SMTP RELAY > Engagement Tracking inside your SparkPost account.
Then select Disable Tracking > Update Settings.