{"id":715,"date":"2026-10-12T08:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/help\/crm-email-contact\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:08:21","slug":"crm-email-contact","status":"publish","type":"rd_doc","link":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/help\/crm\/crm-email-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"See and send email to a contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What it is<\/h2>\n<p>The Email tab on a contact shows every email your sequences sent to them and any they sent back. To write one email yourself, you send it from your own email app.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to find it<\/h2>\n<p>Open a contact &gt; Email button (opens the Email tab).<\/p>\n<h2>Steps<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the contact and press <strong>Email<\/strong> at the top. The Email tab opens with the history.<br \/>\n<figure class=\"rd-shot rd-shot-howto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/realdialer-help-howto-crm-email-contact-1.webp?v=1791835699\" alt=\"Press Email to open the Email tab\" width=\"1440\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Press Email to open the Email tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>To write a one off email, click their email address on the record. It opens in your own email app.<br \/>\n<figure class=\"rd-shot rd-shot-howto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/realdialer-help-howto-crm-email-contact-2.webp?v=1791835700\" alt=\"Click the address to write in your own email app\" width=\"1440\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Click the address to write in your own email app<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>On the <strong>Property<\/strong> tab, each email address also has a <strong>Send<\/strong> button that opens your email app with a subject already filled in.<br \/>\n<figure class=\"rd-shot rd-shot-howto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/realdialer-help-howto-crm-email-contact-3.webp?v=1791835700\" alt=\"On Property, Send opens your email app with a subject\" width=\"1440\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>On Property, Send opens your email app with a subject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>To send email automatically, add an email step to a sequence and tick <strong>Send automatically<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic sequence emails go out from your own domain. Set that up under Settings, Integrations, Email sending.<\/li>\n<li>Sending sequence emails automatically needs the Email upgrade. Without it, an email step lands as a task with the email written out so you can send it by hand.<\/li>\n<li>An address marked Unsubscribed cannot be emailed from RealDialer.<\/li>\n<li>Bounced addresses are marked on the Property tab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Email tab on a contact shows every email your sequences sent to them and any they sent back. To write one email yourself, you send it from your own email app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1947,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_rd_doc_route":"\/crm\/contacts","_rd_doc_source_id":"crm-email-contact","_rd_doc_checked":"2026-10-12","_rd_doc_meta_description":"The Email tab on a contact shows every email your sequences sent to them and any they sent back. To write one email yourself, you send it from your own email app.","footnotes":""},"rd_doc_category":[19],"class_list":["post-715","rd_doc","type-rd_doc","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rd_doc_category-crm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rd_doc"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/715\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rd_doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc_category?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}