SkyMailr Certified Associate

What you'll be able to do

• ✓Email is a relay between an app that sends, the mail companies that run inboxes, and the person receiving, and getting a message into the inbox instead of the spam folder is the hard part called deliverability.
• ✓SkyMailr is the email engine your product calls so it doesn't have to run its own mail system; your app asks, SkyMailr does the hard parts and gets the message to the mailbox.
• ✓SkyMailr is organised as accounts that own connected apps, and each app holds its own sending domains, sender profiles, templates, and keys, all kept separate from every other app.
• ✓A domain is the part of an email address after the @, DNS is the internet's public phone book, and SkyMailr makes you prove you own your sending domain — via SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records — before it will let live mail go out.
• ✓Every email needs a trustworthy "From" address on a domain you have proven you own, and SkyMailr picks that address for you using a clear order of fallbacks — refusing to send if none is valid.
• ✓A template is a reusable email with blanks to fill in, and SkyMailr requires you to approve a version before it can ever be sent.
• ✓An API key is a secret password your app uses to prove it is allowed to send email through SkyMailr, and there are two simple ways to ask SkyMailr to send a message.
• ✓A brand-new sender has to earn trust by starting small, getting people to engage, and keeping its list clean, all of which SkyMailr helps with automatically.
• ✓A guided, hands-on capstone where you send a real email to your own inbox using the shared Academy Sandbox, watch it land on the Messages page, and learn how you'd stand up your own connected app and API key for production.
• ✓Earn a shareable, publicly verifiable certificate of completion.

Topics covered

1. 1 📨 How email actually works (and why it is hard)
2. 2 🧩 What SkyMailr is and how it plugs into your app
3. 3 🗂️ How SkyMailr is organised: accounts, connected apps, and the pieces
4. 4 🌐 Your sending domain: proving you really own it
5. 5 🪪 Who the email is from: sender profiles
6. 6 ✍️ Templates: the emails your app sends over and over
7. 7 🔑 API keys and sending your first email
8. 8 📬 Landing in the inbox, not spam
9. 9 🧪 Lab: send your first email