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Test your support email addresses to confirm incoming tickets, outgoing replies, and email notifications are working. You’ll learn how to verify message delivery, check for suspended tickets or spam filters, and troubleshoot common setup issues, including disabled notification triggers. If something still fails, you can retest or contact support.
You can test your Support email addresses to ensure incoming and outgoing email messages and email notifications are working as expected.
For the test to work correctly, make sure you haven’t disabled any of the standard Support triggers included in your account. Triggers deliver email notifications of ticket updates. If you deactivate email notification triggers, Zendesk won’t send email notifications about ticket activity.
Testing your incoming email
Now that you have set up support addresses for your Zendesk account, test them to make sure they are working correctly.
To test your incoming email
- Send a test email message from an external email account that's not associated
with your agent profile or Zendesk.
Send the message to your new Support address (support@yoursubdomain.zendesk.com), or any email address you've added. Include an email subject and a short description.
- Open the standard unassigned tickets view in your Zendesk account and check if a ticket was created based on the original email.
- Make sure a default email notification was sent back to the original email address.
Troubleshooting tips for incoming email
If you don’t see a ticket created from the message, check the following:
- If you’re testing a new external support address, make sure the message wasn’t caught in your company’s spam filter.
- Check the Suspended tickets view to see if the email was suspended.
- Verify that the Support email address is correct in the original message.
- Send another email.
If the problem persists, contact Zendesk Customer Support.
Testing your outgoing email
After you test your incoming email, you can test your outgoing email.
To test your outgoing email
- Open the ticket that was created by your incoming email test.
- Add a public reply to the ticket and
Submit your changes.
Ticket comments can include public replies (seen by everyone on the ticket) or internal notes (seen by agents and admins only).
- Make sure your reply was sent back to the original email account.
Troubleshooting tips for outgoing email
- Make sure the message wasn’t caught in the spam filter of your external email account.
- Verify that you added a public reply, not an internal note.
- Verify that the default notifications are active on your account.
- Enter another reply in the ticket.
For troubleshooting common issues with outgoing email, see A complete guide to understanding email in Zendesk - Part 4: Common email channel problems. If the problem persists, contact Zendesk Customer Support.