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What it is
The "Confirmation request" is an automated email sent to pending recipients so that they can confirm their will intent to subscribe . This practice prevents fake addresses and spam traps to the list. It's also referred to as the "Subscription confirmation request message" in other areas of our documentation.
Why it exists
Sending prospective new subscribers to your list a request to confirm their intent to subscribe is an email marketing best practice. In fact, it's the only positive way to prevent invalid email addresses and spamtraps from being added to your recipients database as subscribedsubscribers, since only humans actually interested in your newsletter receiving messages from you will click on the link. The editor resembles that of a common word processor; the button 
will help you get the meaning of every button. Use the button
to activate the link after highlighting the text of the link itself.Besides the body of the message, parameters you can edit are subject of the email and sender name and email. All these parameters will be viewed by the recipient.confirmation link.
Properties
You will need to configure the following properties for this automatic notification:
- Subject: enter a subject for the message. For example "Your company name | Confirm your subscription to our monthly newsletter"
- Sender name: the person or entity that is sending the message. It could simply be your company name.
- Sender email: this is the FROM email (the email address that is sending the message). Make sure that it is a recognizable address (e.g. it uses your Web site domain)
- Subscription confirmation link: make sure that there is at least one subscription confirmation link in the body of the message. You can create one by highligthing any text and clicking on the "Sub" icon in the message editor toolbar.
In the example shown above, for instance, the message contains two subscription links: the first one was created by adding a "Sub" link to the words "click here". The second one was created using the "Sub" link code itself (which is dynamically replaced with a unique link when the message is sent). This approach can help in case the receiving email client does not support HTML (rare), as the second link can be copied and pasted in the browser address field by the recipient.
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Related articles
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From our knowledge base:
- Can I disable the subscription confirmation request message (use single opt-in instead of double opt-in)?
- I see a lot of pending recipients: can I enable them?
- Can pending recipients be reminded automatically to confirm their subscription?
Other useful topics: