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Domain Warm Up for Email Services

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Written by Grace from Ivorey™
Updated over a week ago

What Is Email Domain Warm Up?

Domain warm up helps build trust with inboxes like Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo by gradually increasing your daily email volume. This avoids your emails being flagged as spam or hitting delivery issues - especially when using a new email sending domain.

When sending emails from a brand-new domain, you can’t go straight from 0 to 10,000 emails a day. You need to warm up the domain slowly so email providers learn to trust you. Ivorey’s™ warm up tool handles this automatically by ramping up your daily sending volume in fixed stages.

For new email domains: Warmup starts automatically when the domain is verified

For existing email domains: Warmup must be manually started.

  1. Go to Settings > Email Services > SMTP Service > Dedicated Domain and IP.

  2. Click Start Warmup on your domain


How Email Domain Warm Up Works

Each “stage” of warm up has a set daily send limit. Once that daily limit is hit, warmup pauses until the next day. Once you hit the full limit = you move to the next stage. Once you reach Stage 15, warmup is complete.

Sending above the daily limit won’t block emails - but you won’t move to the next stage until the full limit is met. If you don't follow the warm up best practice - your emails could land in spam, bounce, or get delayed. More importantly, your domain reputation could be damaged long-term.


Optional but Recommended: Google Postmaster Tools

Linking Google Postmaster gives you insight into:

  • Email domain reputation (High, Medium, Low, Bad)

  • Spam complaint rates

  • Delivery performance + errors

  • Authentication health


Need Help?

Hit the support chat widget inside Ivorey - we can:

  • Walk you through any of the steps

  • Troubleshoot anything that’s not working

We’re here and ready to help via the chat widget in the bottom right of your Ivorey™ account. Or if you are looking for done-for-you support, you can browse our current services here 🤍

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