--- name: "newsletters_send_test" area: "newsletters" title: "Send a test of an issue" price: "free" method: "POST" url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/newsletters_send_test" mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/newsletters" auth: "Authorization: Bearer " docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_send_test" --- # Send a test of an issue (`newsletters_send_test`) Emails an issue to up to 5 addresses as subscribers will see it, marked [Test]. Email an issue as subscribers will see it to up to 5 addresses (the owner, a colleague), with "[Test]" before the subject, through the business's own email service. Links are not counted and nothing is numbered. Price: Free. A call that fails costs nothing. ## Use it when Before sending, so the owner or a colleague can check it. ## Say this to your agent > Send me and Luis a test of the October newsletter first. ## Inputs | Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | `issue_id` | string | yes | The issue_id newsletters_write_issue returned. Exactly 36 characters. | | | | `to` | array of strings | yes | 1 to 5 items. | | | ## Example Written for Halverson Cycle & Repair, a bike shop with a repair workshop in Portland, Oregon. MCP: call `newsletters_send_test` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/newsletters` with these arguments: ```json { "issue_id": "0c6e2a9f-4d1b-4e8a-9b3c-7f5d2e1a8c40", "to": [ "dana@halversoncycle.example", "luis@halversoncycle.example" ] } ``` REST: ```bash curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/newsletters_send_test \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"issue_id": "0c6e2a9f-4d1b-4e8a-9b3c-7f5d2e1a8c40", "to": ["dana@halversoncycle.example", "luis@halversoncycle.example"]}' ``` ## Response ```json { "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93", "tool": "newsletters_send_test", "status": "succeeded", "replayed": false, "cost_usd": "$0.00", "balance_usd": "$19.75", "result": { "sent_to": [ "dana@halversoncycle.example", "luis@halversoncycle.example" ] } } ``` `result`: sent_to: the addresses the test went to. ## Errors | Code | Status | When | Fix | |---|---|---|---| | `not_found` | 404 | No issue of the business has that issue_id. | Find it with newsletters_list_issues and use its issue_id. | | `no_sending_service` | 409 | The business has not connected its own email service. | Connect it with newsletters_connect_service (its SMTP server, login and from address). | | `invalid_input` | 400 | An address is not an email address. | Fix the address the message names. | | `sending_unavailable` | 403 | The business cannot send newsletters right now. | Do what the message says (often: top up once), then send again. | | `suppressed` | 422 | An address bounced, complained or unsubscribed before. | Remove the addresses the message lists and send again. | | `login_failed` | 400 | The business's email service refused the login. | Check the SMTP login and password (often an SMTP key, not the account password) and connect it again. | | `service_unreachable` | 502 | The business's email service could not be reached. | Check the SMTP server and port (587 or 465), then try again. | | `service_refused` | 502 | The business's email service turned the email down, often a from address it does not allow. | Allow the from address in the service, or connect it with one it allows. | | `service_busy` | 503 | The business's email service asked to slow down. | Try again in a few minutes. | | `refused` | 422 | The business's email service will not take mail for an address. | Use another address for that person. | The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md ## Related - [newsletters_connect_service](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_connect_service.md): Connects the business's own email service (Brevo, Amazon SES, Mailgun or any SMTP server), which every newsletter email goes out through. Free. - [newsletters_remove_service](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_remove_service.md): Disconnects the business's email service and forgets its password; newsletters wait until one is connected again. Free. - [newsletters_create](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_create.md): Creates a newsletter people join on its own page by confirming their address, sent through the business's own email service. Free. - [newsletters_update](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_update.md): Renames a newsletter or changes its description, postal address or archive. Free. - [newsletters_list](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_list.md): The business's newsletters with their pages and subscriber counts, and the email service they go out through. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [newsletters_invite](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_invite.md): Emails each person a request to confirm a subscription; only those who confirm ever get an issue. Free. - [newsletters_subscribers](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_subscribers.md): Who is on a newsletter, newest first: confirmed, waiting to confirm, unsubscribed, bounced or complained. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [newsletters_remove_subscriber](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_remove_subscriber.md): Deletes someone from a newsletter for good, with their history. Free. - [newsletters_write_issue](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_write_issue.md): Writes a draft issue in Markdown, to test and then send. Free. - [newsletters_update_issue](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_update_issue.md): Changes a draft issue's subject, body or preheader. Free. - [newsletters_send_issue](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_send_issue.md): Sends a draft to everyone who confirmed, now or at a set time, through the business's own email service. Free. - [newsletters_cancel_issue](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_cancel_issue.md): Stops a scheduled issue, or one still going out; what went out already stays sent. Free. - [newsletters_get_issue](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_get_issue.md): One issue: its text, where it stands, and once sent how many it reached, bounced, unsubscribed and clicked, link by link. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [newsletters_list_issues](https://conecto.chat/tools/newsletters/newsletters_list_issues.md): A newsletter's issues, newest first, optionally of one status. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.