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SendGrid Email Verification

SendGrid is a cloud-based email delivery platform that helps businesses manage their email communications. It provides tools for sending transactional and marketing emails, ensuring that messages reach recipients' inboxes effectively.

Verifying your SendGrid account is an important step to ensure that you can send emails without issues and improve your deliverability. Here’s a general process for verifying your SendGrid account:

1. Sign Up/In to your Account

  • Go to the SendGrid website and sign up for an account if you haven’t already. If not login into your newly created personal SendGrid account.

2. Verify Your Email Address

  • After signing up, SendGrid will send a verification email to the address you provided.
  • Check your inbox (and spam folder) for an email from SendGrid, and click on the verification link in that email.

3. Set Up Two-Factor Authentication (Optional but Recommended)

  • For added security, you can enable two-factor authentication (2FA) in your account settings.
  • This typically involves linking your account to an authentication app or receiving codes via SMS.

4. Add and Verify Domain

  • To improve deliverability, you’ll want to verify your sending domain.
  • Navigate to the “Settings” section in your SendGrid dashboard, then select “Sender Authentication.
  • Choose “Authenticate Your Domain” and follow the instructions to add DNS records to your domain provider.
  • After adding the DNS records, it may take some time for the changes to propagate.
    SendGrid will check for the records and verify the domain.

5. Check Verification Status

  • In your SendGrid dashboard, you can check the status of your domain and email verification to ensure everything is set up correctly.

By following these steps, you can successfully verify your SendGrid account, enabling you to send emails reliably.
If you encounter any issues, SendGrid’s support documentation or customer support can provide additional guidance.

This knowledge base article from there site will also help if you run into a verification errors or issues.

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