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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

Subscribers

Map Pins

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

Site Config

Upload a photo to Firebase Storage and paste the public URL here.

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.

Domain Setup

Your missionary's public site and email list both rely on a custom domain. There are two independent pieces of plumbing — the public website (Firebase Hosting) and outbound email (Brevo). Both need DNS records at whoever hosts the domain. Path-based URLs like mission-email-list.web.app/m/<id> work without any of this; the custom domain just makes things pretty.

Custom domain

The bare hostname for this missionary — no https://, no trailing slash. Changing this re-points both the website and the email setup; you'll need to re-register with Brevo below.

1. Public website (Firebase Hosting)

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

2. Outbound email (Brevo)

Authenticate (no customDomain set) with Brevo so welcome emails, letter broadcasts, and bounce-backs actually get delivered from letters@…. Without this, Brevo silently rejects every message.

3. Inbound email (letting the missionary email in)

Your missionary emails letters to letters@… and they land in the Letters tab for review. Inbound goes through SendGrid (Brevo gates this feature to enterprise). We'll register the domain with SendGrid for you; you just add the MX record at 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 (Namecheap ships with five eforward*.registrar-servers.com entries for its email forwarding feature), remove those first — only SendGrid's MX should remain, or mail will bounce.

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