5dayemail

Publish a 5-day email course

An email course is a short, finite sequence: five to ten lessons, one a day, delivered to an inbox in the order you wrote them. It works because it is finite. A newsletter asks a stranger to subscribe to something with no end, while a course asks for five mornings and says what arrives on each of them, so the decision is small and the ending is a real moment rather than an unsubscribe.

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Invite-only for now, while bounce and complaint handling is finished.

A sample course, “Write a sentence people finish”, two mornings in.

The daily rhythm is what does the work. A reader who opened day two is far more likely to open day three, and by day five your name in a From line is familiar rather than unexpected. Nothing else you can write earns that in a week.

A finite course is also honest about what it costs someone. You are asking for five to ten mornings, not an open-ended place in an inbox, and a reader who finishes has actually finished something. That is the moment worth designing for, and it is why the length here is capped at ten emails rather than sold as a bigger number on a bigger plan.

How it works

  1. Write between five and ten emails

    Each day is one email: a subject line, the preview line most inboxes show beside it, and a body you write in a rich text editor with headings, lists, quotes, links and images. You reorder days by moving them up and down. Nothing about sequences, triggers or branching logic ever appears, because a course that goes out one day at a time does not need any of it.

  2. Publish, and you get a page to send people to

    Publishing gives you a hosted opt-in page at 5dayemail.com/c/your-course with your headline, your description and one form. There is no embed script to paste, no domain to verify and no sending account to set up before your first reader arrives.

  3. Every reader confirms, then gets one lesson a day

    A new address receives one confirmation email and nothing else until it is clicked. Day one is sent the instant they confirm rather than the next morning, and each following day arrives on the next calendar day in the reader’s own timezone, at the hour you chose for the course between 06:00 and 21:00 local.

What you write in

One editor, one day of the course at a time. There is no canvas, no automation graph and nothing to configure before you can write the first sentence.

  • Headings, bold, italic, bullet and numbered lists, quotes, code and links, written in the page rather than in a separate window
  • Images you drag in, resized and converted on your machine before they are uploaded, so a 6MB photo does not become a 6MB email
  • A subject line and a preview line for every day, edited next to the body they belong to
  • Every save is a new version, kept forever, so editing day four tomorrow cannot rewrite the day four that went out this morning
  • A check at publish time that renders the real email and refuses it if it is too large to arrive intact or uses layout Outlook cannot draw
  • A course you can pause and resume without losing anyone’s place in it

Confirmed opt-in is not a setting here

Every creator on this platform sends from the same domain, so one careless list damages everyone else’s delivery. That is the reason for the rules below, and it is also why none of them has a switch. They are enforced by the database, not by a preference you could turn off at two in the morning.

  • An address that has not clicked its confirmation link receives exactly one message, ever — the confirmation itself
  • The exact sentence a reader agreed to is stored with the date, the address, the IP and the browser, so the record of consent is the wording they actually saw
  • One-click unsubscribe on every message, in the headers your mail client reads and as a visible link in the footer, honoured the moment it is pressed
  • Unsubscribing stops mail from the whole platform, permanently, including courses by other creators — not just the one list
  • A sender name and a postal address are required before a course can be published, because a course email without them is a message no inbox should trust
  • Sending volume ramps over three weeks for every new account rather than starting wide open
  • No open tracking. Apple Mail fetches a tracking pixel whether or not anyone read anything, so an open is not a number worth collecting

Questions

How long can a course be?
Between five and ten emails. That is a fixed ceiling, not a limit that lifts on a larger plan. A course that ends is a course people finish, and ten mornings is already a great deal to ask of a stranger.
When does day one arrive?
The moment the reader clicks their confirmation link, whatever time that is. Day two arrives on the next calendar day in their own timezone, at the send hour you picked for the course, and so on to the last day.
Is confirmed opt-in optional?
No. Every address confirms before it receives anything but the confirmation email, on every path onto a list, and there is no setting anywhere that changes that. The rule is enforced by a database constraint rather than by application code.
Who does the email come from?
Your sender name, on a dedicated course-sending domain kept separate from the domain that sends sign-in and account mail, with your own address as the reply-to. Replies go straight to you and are never read here.
Do you track opens?
No, and there is no switch for it. Apple Mail Privacy Protection loads tracking pixels on behalf of readers who never opened anything, so the resulting percentage looks like information without being any. Nothing here records who opened what.
Can I import a list I already have?
Yes, as a re-permission campaign rather than as a transfer. Paste the list or pick a file, say where the consent came from, and every address on it enters as pending and receives one confirmation email and nothing else. Nobody joins a course without clicking that link, so the list you end up with is the part of your old one that still wants to hear from you.
What happens when someone unsubscribes?
The remaining days of their course are cancelled immediately and the address is added to a suppression list that covers the whole platform and is never removed. A one-click unsubscribe from a mail client is honoured in the same request, not queued for later.
Can I edit a day after the course is live?
Yes. Every save writes a new version and nothing overwrites an old one, and a day already handed to the mail provider keeps the version it was sent with. Readers who have not reached that day yet get the new one.
Can I sign up today?
Not yet. Sign-up is invite-only while bounce and complaint handling is finished, because until that is in place there is nothing watching a list that turns bad. Anyone can sign in with Google; accounts are created for invited addresses only.