Test mode
Build the whole flow before you send anything.
Test keys run the full pipeline without delivering, and simulator addresses bounce or complain on demand.
Every account gets two kinds of key. A key beginning av_test_ runs the entire pipeline, records the email and fires the same events and webhooks, but nothing reaches an inbox. Your test suite and your staging environment can exercise the real code path without a single real message going out.
Every account also gets a sandbox sender, so you can send before you own a verified domain. Three simulator recipients make the unhappy paths easy: one always delivers, one always hard-bounces and one always complains. They work with live keys too, and they are never added to your suppression list.
- Test keys produce real events without real email
- Send from the sandbox before verifying a domain
- Bounce and complaint paths you can trigger on demand
A test-mode send
curl -X POST https://api.avelto.dev/v1/emails \
-H "Authorization: Bearer av_test_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"from": "Acme <[email protected]>",
"to": "[email protected]",
"subject": "Password reset",
"text": "Nothing is sent. The events and webhooks still fire."
}'