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title: "Resend Forward 5: Wrap Up"
slug: resend-forward-5-wrap-up
description: "Everything we launched during the fifth launch week."
created_at: "2025-11-10"
updated_at: "2025-11-10"
image: https://cdn.resend.com/posts/resend-forward-5-wrap-up.jpg
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category: "product"
---

Today marks the end of [Resend Forward](/forward), our fifth launch week.

In the last seven days, we shipped six new features.

Here's a quick recap of what we launched:

- [Day 1: Inbound Emails](#day-1-inbound-emails)
- [Day 2: Templates](#day-2-templates)
- [Day 3: New Contacts Experience](#day-3-new-contacts-experience)
- [Day 4: Unsubscribe Topics](#day-4-unsubscribe-topics)
- [Day 5: React Email 5.0](#day-5-react-email-50)
- [Day 6: One more (AI) thing](#day-6-one-more-ai-thing)

If you prefer watching instead of reading, check out this video:

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## Day 1: Inbound Emails

On Monday, we announced general availability of our most-requested feature: Inbound Emails.

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Inbound unlocks [entirely new use cases](/blog/inbound-emails#how-does-it-work) like:

- Replying to in-app emails
- Processing forwarded attachments
- Receiving support emails from users

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## Day 2: Templates

Tuesday's launch introduced Templates, a new way to collaborate on emails with your entire team.

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You can now:

- [Create a new Template](/blog/introducing-templates#creating-a-new-template) through the dashboard, the API, or by importing existing code.
- [Create template variables](/blog/introducing-templates#template-variables) to personalize email content.
- [Collaborate with your team in real-time](/blog/introducing-templates#collaboration) to craft the perfect email template.
- [Version your Templates](/blog/introducing-templates#versioning) and publish them to make them available for sending.

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## Day 3: New Contacts Experience

On Wednesday, we shared the new Contacts experience:

- [Create custom properties](/blog/new-contacts-experience#custom-contact-properties)
- [Assign values to custom properties](/blog/new-contacts-experience#assign-custom-values-to-contacts) on your contacts
- Use these properties to [personalize your Broadcasts](/blog/new-contacts-experience#use-contact-properties-in-broadcasts)
- [View a Contact's engagement](/blog/new-contacts-experience#contact-activity-history) with your emails over time
- [Segment your Contacts](/blog/new-contacts-experience#segmenting-contacts) as you need

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This new Contact model offers several benefits:

- You get a more accurate view of your interaction with each Contact
- You can personalize your broadcasts to each Contact
- You can segment your Contacts as you need
- We count your Contacts once, even if they are in multiple Segments

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  title="New Contacts Experience"
  description="Store custom properties on your contacts, track their activity, and segment them as you need."
  url="/blog/new-contacts-experience"
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## Day 4: Unsubscribe Topics

On Thursday, we introduced [Topics](/blog/unsubscribe-topics), a new way to allow users to manage their email preferences.

You can now: 

- [Create Topics](/blog/unsubscribe-topics#creating-a-new-topic), which can be opt-in or opt-out by default
- [Assign Topics to Contacts](/blog/unsubscribe-topics#assigning-topics-to-contacts)
- [Send emails with specific Topics](/blog/unsubscribe-topics#how-it-works)

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When users manage their preferences, they’ll see which Topics they’re currently subscribed to and can adjust their settings to their liking.

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  title="Unsubscribe Topics"
  description="Give your users more control over their subscription preferences."
  url="/blog/unsubscribe-topics"
  image="https://cdn.resend.com/posts/unsubscribe-topics.jpg"
/>

## Day 5: React Email 5.0

On Friday, we announced a new major version of [react.email](https://react.email) featuring:

- **[Dark Mode Switcher](/blog/react-email-5#dark-mode-switcher)**
- **[Tailwind 4](/blog/react-email-5#tailwind-4)**
- **[Resend Integration](/blog/react-email-5#resend-integration)**
- **[8 New Components](/blog/react-email-5#8-new-components)**

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  title="React Email 5.0"
  description="New updates to React Email for improved UX and DX."
  url="/blog/react-email-5"
  image="https://cdn.resend.com/posts/react-email-5.jpg"
/>

## Day 6: One more (AI) thing

On Saturday, we shared three new AI-powered features built to enhance your emails:

-  [AI Subject Lines](/blog/one-more-ai-thing#ai-subject-lines)
-  [AI Preview Text](/blog/one-more-ai-thing#ai-preview-text)
-  [AI Image Alt Text](/blog/one-more-ai-thing#ai-image-alt-text)

All of these new features work for emails in all languages. We detect the language from the body of the email and generate text in the same language.

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When used tastefully, AI can help you craft better emails and reach humans instead of spam filters.

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  title="One more (AI) thing"
  description="Use AI to generate subjects, preview texts, and alt texts in multiple languages."
  url="/blog/one-more-ai-thing"
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## Looking Forward

We hope you enjoyed the new features we launched last week.

See you at the next launch!