Set up sending

Careers sends applications with your own Resend account, from your own domain. It never falls back to a key of ours: without your key, approval is refused and a scheduled send fails with "Add your Resend key in Mail settings".

1. A sending domain in Resend#

1. Create a Resend account and add your domain (for example the one you use for e-mail).
2. Publish the records Resend shows at your DNS host: the DKIM TXT, the SPF TXT and MX on the send subdomain (for bounces), and optionally a DMARC TXT.
3. Wait for the domain to show Verified. Until then every send fails with a message that says to verify your domain.

2. Mail settings in Careers#

Open Settings, then Mail.

• Your name, the from address on the verified domain, and a reply-to (your everyday inbox).
• Your Resend API key under Sending provider, then Check domain. The key is sealed when saved.
• Your signature, the delay window, the daily limit, your time zone and per-country defaults.
• Two or three example e-mails, so drafts sound like you.

3. Replies#

Replies need an address that Careers can read.

1. In Mail settings choose Create my inbound address. It looks like careers+<token>@<a receiving domain>.
2. In Gmail, add that address under Forwarding, confirm it (the confirmation arrives as a message in your outbox), then create a filter, for example on subjects containing "application", "bewerbung" or "Re: Application", that forwards to it.
3. Replies are then matched to their thread by the token and the forwarding headers.

The receiving domain and the webhook are set up by the operator of the Careers deployment (for the hosted app, that is us).

Limits and kindness#

The defaults (random delay, business hours of the recipient, ten a day) are there to protect your reputation as a sender. Raise them carefully.

Test first#

Send your first application to yourself or a friend with approval, and see how it arrives.