Product Update: SMTP for Course Emails 📩

This post was originally shared with our users via email on August 14, 2026.

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A learner signs up for your course. They open their inbox and the email is there, sent from no-reply@minicoursegenerator.com.

It does the job. It just doesn’t have your name on it.

White label emailing has been around for a while to fix exactly that, and it works well. It only asks for some groundwork first: a SendGrid or MailerSend account, a domain you own, and a few DNS records.

That’s a fair bit to get through before your first email goes out, and if you don’t have a domain at all, it isn’t really an option.

So we added a shortcut.

SMTP is now live. 📩

You can now connect the mailbox you already have. Your Gmail, your Outlook, your company mailbox. Your invitation, verification, and certificate emails go out from that address instead of ours.

No domain required. If you send from a personal Gmail address, that’s fine, that address is what your learners will see. No DNS records, no third-party account, nothing to verify.

It takes about two minutes:

1. Create an app password. Gmail won’t accept your normal password here, so grab a 16-character app password from your Google account. Outlook works the same way.

2. Pick SMTP and your host. In your collection’s White label email settings, choose SMTP, then click Google or Microsoft. Server, port, and security fill themselves in.

3. Save and test. Enter your address and app password, hit Save settings, then Send test email to confirm it landed.

That’s it. Every email that collection sends now comes from you.

Set up your sender address

Available on Plus plans and above. See the help center guide for the full walkthrough.

What’s next: your MCP server is getting a lot more capable 📊

We’re expanding the MCP server, and the headline is learner analytics.

Soon you’ll be able to ask your LLM how a course is actually performing. Who’s making progress and who stalled, how far each learner got, and what they answered on your questions. All of it in the same chat where you build your courses, no dashboard digging required.

Alongside that, we’re filling in the smaller gaps that stop you mid-flow today. Changing a course’s theme, adding an audio block, the everyday edits you currently have to leave the chat to make.

That last part is where we need you. If you’ve ever asked your LLM to do something in MCG and hit a wall, tell us what it was. That’s genuinely how this list gets made.