# A better email program starts here. Start with a plain-language answer, follow a setup guide or investigate a result. This is the path through Bird’s email products, documentation, explained articles, learning videos and tools. [Browse email FAQs](/products/email/faqs) [Open the complete Email guide](/docs/guides/email/overview) [Choose a workflow](#workflows) [Email explained](#explained) [Prepare a campaign](#campaigns) [Build an integration](#integration) [Deliverability](#deliverability) [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) [Migration](#migration) [Videos and tools](#tools) ## Choose the right email workflow Start with the job you want to complete. - [Send your first email](/products/email/getting-started): Follow the setup steps from an API key to your first integration. - [Create campaigns](/products/email/marketing): Prepare contacts, write a newsletter and schedule a broadcast. - [Send from your application](/products/email/sending): Receipts, notifications and other messages triggered by your product. - [Connect an SMTP application](/products/email/smtp): Keep an existing SMTP integration and configure Bird as its relay. - [Receive email in your application](/products/email/inbound): Turn incoming messages and attachments into work your application can process. - [Give an agent an inbox](/products/email/mailboxes): Receive conversations, apply rules and reply through the API. ## Email, explained Understand the concepts before choosing a tool or integration. - [Transactional or marketing email?](/explained/email/transactional-vs-marketing-email): Understand the purpose of each message and why its category matters. - [What is an email API?](/explained/email/what-is-an-email-api): See how an application sends email and follows the result. - [SMTP and IMAP](/explained/email/smtp-vs-imap): Understand sending protocols and mailbox access. - [Explore Email explained](/explained/email): Browse the complete collection of email concepts and implementation questions. ## Prepare a campaign with your team or an agent The same contacts, templates and broadcasts across your working tools. - [Import and sync contacts](/docs/guides/email/contacts): Map spreadsheet columns, register typed properties and update existing records. - [Build a reusable audience](/docs/guides/email/audiences): Manage list membership and understand the deliverable count. - [Author and preview a template](/docs/guides/email/templates): Work with drafts, published versions, languages and personalization. - [Create a broadcast](/docs/guides/email/broadcasts): Choose an audience, review the campaign, send or schedule and inspect results. - [Connect your AI agent](/docs/ai/set-up-your-agent): Set up the CLI or MCP so your agent can work with Bird. - [Give the agent the right instructions](/docs/ai/agent-skills): Use Bird’s maintained skills to find the appropriate commands and workflow. ## Build and test the integration Use the guide for the capability you are implementing. - [Send your first email](/docs/get-started/send-your-first-email): Create a key, make a send and follow its result. - [Test delivery outcomes](/docs/guides/email/testing-sandbox): Simulate delivery, bounces and complaints through the normal event pipeline. - [Schedule a message](/docs/guides/email/scheduled-sending): Set a future send time and understand cancellation and send-time checks. - [Send a batch](/docs/guides/email/sending-bulk): Submit independent messages together for a one-off list. - [Receive and parse email](/docs/guides/email/receiving-email): Use forwarding addresses or a receiving domain, then process messages and attachments. - [React to events](/docs/guides/email/events): Connect recipient outcomes to your application with webhooks. ## Understand and improve deliverability Separate authentication, address quality, server acceptance and inbox placement. - [Delivery versus inbox placement](/explained/deliverability/what-is-email-deliverability): Know which question a metric can answer. - [SPF, DKIM and DMARC](/explained/deliverability/spf-vs-dkim-vs-dmarc): Understand the purpose of each authentication mechanism. - [One-click unsubscribe](/explained/deliverability/what-is-one-click-unsubscribe): Understand the opt-out experience and the headers behind it. - [Explore Deliverability explained](/explained/deliverability): Read the full library on authentication, reputation, bounces and inbox placement. - [Measure your inbox placement](/docs/guides/email/inbox-insights): Read provider estimates and run a controlled seed test. - [Research competitor campaigns](/docs/guides/email/competitive-insights): Build a watchlist and interpret panel-observed campaigns and estimates. ## Investigate a sending problem Work from the observed result to the relevant check. - [Inspect the email log](/docs/guides/email/email-log): Follow a message and its recipients through the event timeline. - [Understand a bounce](/docs/knowledge-base/troubleshooting/bounces): Read the reason a recipient’s server rejected the mail. - [Understand a rejected recipient](/docs/guides/email/suppressions): Inspect hard-bounce, complaint and manual suppression records. - [Understand an opt-out](/docs/guides/email/unsubscribe-links): Follow unsubscribe links and the preference a recipient records. - [Interpret campaign metrics](/docs/guides/email/tracking-and-metrics): Understand event-time reporting, filtered opens and the limits of engagement data. - [Check an address](/docs/guides/lookup/email-addresses): Read validation verdicts, confidence, flags and typo suggestions. ## Move your email to Bird Use a provider-specific guide alongside the migration checklist. - [Plan the migration](/docs/guides/email/migrate): Map sends, domain records, suppressions and webhooks before cutting over. - [From SendGrid](/docs/guides/email/migrate/sendgrid): Follow the send, suppression and webhook mapping. - [From Amazon SES](/docs/guides/email/migrate/ses): Plan authentication and event changes alongside the send call. - [From Mailgun](/docs/guides/email/migrate/mailgun): Map sending and event handling to Bird. - [From Resend](/docs/guides/email/migrate/resend): Move the send call and verify the surrounding workflow. - [Compare providers](/products/email/compare): Review product comparisons; the migration guide also covers Postmark, Brevo, MailerSend, Mailjet and Mandrill. ## Learn by doing Watch a workflow or bring a real diagnostic input to a tool. - [Build an email broadcast](/learn/email/email-broadcasts-one-email-to-your-whole-audience): Follow the campaign workflow and read its results. - [Build an email template](/learn/email/how-to-build-an-email-template): Watch template creation in the dashboard and with an agent. - [Analyze email headers](/tools/email-analyzer): Inspect the authentication results and routing headers from a received message. - [Read a DMARC report](/tools/dmarc-report-analyzer): Turn a raw aggregate report into an interpretable view. - [Prepare a DMARC policy](/tools/dmarc-policy): Build the record for the policy you intend to publish. - [Format a long DNS record](/tools/dns-record-splitter): Split a long TXT value into the strings your DNS provider accepts. ## From the guide to your first send. Create your workspace, verify a sender and put the email guides to work. Follow the getting-started checklist for a clear path to production. [Start building](/dashboard/signup?returnTo=%2Fdashboard%2Fw%2Femail) [Follow the setup checklist](/products/email/getting-started) Follow a guide first, or create your account and continue with the Email setup checklist. ## Related resources - [Email platform](/products/email) (product)