Salesforce: Some Insights

Designing a robust automated system is challenging yet profoundly satisfying. I'm sure most can relate, it is bliss to watch the system automatically doing all the work, like clockwork (quite literally). However, there can be some downsides as well. In our example, we wanted to ensure that in no way possible, an email is sent out to external recipients from a sandbox. Of course, the first step would be to mask the required data. However, there's still a possibility that real email addresses can make it into a sandbox. So, we devised a solution to absolutely restrict such emails from a sandbox. The solution is actually quite simple. This solution only targets email sent out manually by users in a sandbox. It does not address emails sent via apex, automation or third party tools Step 1 - Identify the test domain Identify a domain that you want to enable, to be able to send test emails from the sandbox. For example, if you are in XYZ Inc, you most likely want to send test ema...