Email design¶

Email Design controls how your broadcast emails look and read. Like Site Settings, everything here saves automatically.

Letter design (template)¶

Pick the overall visual style. Select a thumbnail to switch, then use Preview broadcast (at the bottom) to see the full result. Templates include:

Editorial — clean newsletter look (the default).
Clean newsletter — brand bar, modern, and professional.
Postcard — warm paper, handwritten signature feel.
Airmail — bold striped border, full postal look.
Scrapbook — playful paper, washi tape, polaroids.
Scrapbook · Floral — the Scrapbook look in a pastel floral palette (soft pinks, a rose washi tape, a flower on the masthead).
Summer — bright and sunny: a sunbeam banner, a big bold headline, and your photos shown large. Great for beach days and warm-weather updates.
Fall — a warm magazine look: cozy parchment, a serif headline, a burnt-orange rule, and a framed photo. Reads like an autumn column.
Winter — clean and minimal: lots of white space, a centered headline, thin frosty rules, and cool blues. Calm and uncluttered.
Christmas — a festive greeting card: a holly red-and-green ribbon border, a centered headline framed by stars, gold accents, and your photo.
General Conference — a formal, dignified program: a navy header band with gold accents and a "Conference Weekend" line. Great for recaps.
Plain text — no styling at all.

Postmark stamp¶

Optionally add a postal-style stamp to the email header:

No stamp, Cancellation mark only, or Country flag + cancellation.
A live preview updates as you change the style and location.
The stamp's location defaults to your mission location, or you can set a custom city, country, and (where it applies) state/province.

Plain text has no header

The stamp options turn off automatically when you choose the Plain text template, since it has no header to put a stamp on.

Sender + subject¶

What recipients see in their inbox before they open:

Sender display name — the "From" name. Leave blank to use the default (the missionary's name plus "Mission Updates").
Subject template — add a consistent prefix or suffix to every letter's subject. Placeholders you can use: {subject}, {missionary}, {week}, {location}, {date}. Wrap part of it in […] to hide that part when it's empty — for example, [Week {week}: ]{subject} reads as "Week 12: Hello" when a week is set, and just "Hello" when it isn't.

Greeting¶

Add a greeting line to every letter — when on, each broadcast starts with Dear {name}, for subscribers who have a name on file.
When the subscriber has no name on file — the fallback greeting (the default is "Dear friends and family,").

Body content¶

Email signature — appended below every letter. Supports Markdown (**bold**, *italic*, [link](https://…)) and the placeholders {missionary} and {mission}.
Welcome email message — sent to people who subscribe themselves. Placeholders: {name}, {missionary}, {archiveUrl}. Leave blank for the default.
Primary color — the accent color for buttons and accent lines in broadcasts and the welcome email.

When you fill in both the home ward name and the unit number, broadcasts include a "Serving From: {Ward} (Unit #{Number})" line at the bottom. The unit number is shared with Help Fund My Mission — editing it in either place updates both.

Preview broadcast¶

Select Preview broadcast to render a sample email using all your current settings, in a safe preview window. It uses the same engine that sends real broadcasts, so what you see is what subscribers get. Use it before sending a real letter.

Next steps¶

Happy with the look? Go write and send in Letters.
The greeting, signature, and "Serving From" line draw on details set in Site settings. Fill those in first if a placeholder looks empty in the preview.