Cold email from Gmail

How to send cold email from Gmail without hurting your domain

Short answer

Send from your own Google Workspace or Gmail account at a human pace: a sensible daily limit, sending windows, delays between emails, a one-click unsubscribe, and follow-ups that stop when someone replies. Write each email for the person reading it. Distro does all of this from your own account, so replies land in your normal inbox.

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Why send from your own account

A real person's inbox on your own domain is what prospects expect to hear from. Replies thread naturally, and you are not sharing reputation with anyone else's sending.

The trade-off is that your domain's reputation is yours to protect, so volume and relevance matter more than with a sending network.

The rules that protect your domain

Most deliverability problems come from sending too much, too fast, to people who didn't want it.

  • Stay well below Google's sending limits; for cold outreach, a few dozen well-targeted emails a day beats hundreds
  • Set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC on your sending domain before you start
  • Space emails out inside business hours, not in a burst
  • Include a one-click unsubscribe and honour it immediately
  • Stop the sequence the moment someone replies or books
  • Watch bounces and remove bad addresses

How Distro sends from Gmail

You connect your Google account once. Distro writes a personalized email for each prospect, sends it through your account inside the sending windows and daily limits you set, and adds a one-click unsubscribe to every email.

Replies show up in your Gmail and in Distro's inbox, and the rest of that person's sequence stops automatically. Opens, clicks, replies, bounces and unsubscribes are tracked per campaign.

How it works

Cold email from Gmail with Distro

  1. 1

    Connect Google

    Your Workspace or Gmail address. Growth includes 5 sender mailboxes.

  2. 2

    Import prospects

    From a CSV, grouped by segment.

  3. 3

    Approve the sequence

    A personalized first email and follow-ups in your voice.

  4. 4

    Distro sends and follows up

    At a human pace, stopping on reply.

FAQ

Questions founders ask.

Can I send cold email from a free Gmail account?

You can, but a Google Workspace address on your company domain looks more credible and keeps outreach separate from personal email.

Does Distro warm up my inbox?

Distro doesn't run a warmup network. It protects your reputation with low, paced volume, relevance and fast unsubscribes.

Will my emails land in spam?

No tool can guarantee inbox placement. Sending relevant emails from a properly authenticated domain at a human pace is what helps most.

Let Distro run it for you.

Paste your website. Distro works out who buys from you and drafts your first campaign, ready for you to approve.

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