diff --git a/dev/payload.config.ts b/dev/payload.config.ts
index f53fc40..11eb050 100644
--- a/dev/payload.config.ts
+++ b/dev/payload.config.ts
@@ -123,123 +123,6 @@ export default buildConfig({
         retryDelay: 60000, // 1 minute for dev
         queue: 'default',
 
-        // Example: Collection overrides for customization
-        // Uncomment and modify as needed for your use case
-        /*
-        collections: {
-          templates: {
-            // Custom access controls - restrict who can manage templates
-            access: {
-              read: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:read')
-              },
-              create: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:create')
-              },
-              update: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:update')
-              },
-              delete: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin'
-              },
-            },
-            // Custom admin UI settings
-            admin: {
-              group: 'Marketing',
-              description: 'Email templates with enhanced security and categorization'
-            },
-            // Add custom fields to templates
-            fields: [
-              // Default plugin fields are automatically included
-              {
-                name: 'category',
-                type: 'select',
-                options: [
-                  { label: 'Marketing', value: 'marketing' },
-                  { label: 'Transactional', value: 'transactional' },
-                  { label: 'System Notifications', value: 'system' }
-                ],
-                defaultValue: 'transactional',
-                admin: {
-                  position: 'sidebar',
-                  description: 'Template category for organization'
-                }
-              },
-              {
-                name: 'tags',
-                type: 'text',
-                hasMany: true,
-                admin: {
-                  position: 'sidebar',
-                  description: 'Tags for easy template filtering'
-                }
-              },
-              {
-                name: 'isActive',
-                type: 'checkbox',
-                defaultValue: true,
-                admin: {
-                  position: 'sidebar',
-                  description: 'Only active templates can be used'
-                }
-              }
-            ],
-            // Custom validation hooks
-            hooks: {
-              beforeChange: [
-                ({ data, req }) => {
-                  // Example: Only admins can create system templates
-                  if (data.category === 'system' && req.user?.role !== 'admin') {
-                    throw new Error('Only administrators can create system notification templates')
-                  }
-
-                  // Example: Auto-generate slug if not provided
-                  if (!data.slug && data.name) {
-                    data.slug = data.name.toLowerCase()
-                      .replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '-')
-                      .replace(/-+/g, '-')
-                      .replace(/^-|-$/g, '')
-                  }
-
-                  return data
-                }
-              ]
-            }
-          },
-          emails: {
-            // Restrict access to emails collection
-            access: {
-              read: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:read')
-              },
-              create: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:create')
-              },
-              update: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:update')
-              },
-              delete: ({ req: { user } }) => {
-                if (!user) return false
-                return user.role === 'admin'
-              },
-            },
-            // Custom admin configuration for emails
-            admin: {
-              group: 'Marketing',
-              description: 'Email delivery tracking and management',
-              defaultColumns: ['subject', 'to', 'status', 'priority', 'scheduledAt'],
-            }
-          }
-        },
-        */
-
         // Optional: Custom rich text editor configuration
         // Comment out to use default lexical editor
         richTextEditor: lexicalEditor({
@@ -256,12 +139,6 @@ export default buildConfig({
             // etc.
           ],
         }),
-
-
-        // Called after mailing plugin is fully initialized
-        onReady: async (payload) => {
-          await seedUser(payload)
-        },
       }),
     ],
     secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET || 'test-secret_key',
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5c52251..da85819 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@xtr-dev/payload-mailing",
-  "version": "0.4.13",
+  "version": "0.4.14",
   "description": "Template-based email system with scheduling and job processing for PayloadCMS",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
diff --git a/src/collections/Emails.ts b/src/collections/Emails.ts
index 9bff505..19c99f5 100644
--- a/src/collections/Emails.ts
+++ b/src/collections/Emails.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,26 @@ const Emails: CollectionConfig = {
     group: 'Mailing',
     description: 'Email delivery and status tracking',
   },
+  defaultPopulate: {
+    template: true,
+    to: true,
+    cc: true,
+    bcc: true,
+    from: true,
+    replyTo: true,
+    jobs: true,
+    status: true,
+    attempts: true,
+    lastAttemptAt: true,
+    error: true,
+    priority: true,
+    scheduledAt: true,
+    sentAt: true,
+    variables: true,
+    html: true,
+    text: true,
+    createdAt: true,
+  },
   fields: [
     {
       name: 'template',
diff --git a/src/sendEmail.ts b/src/sendEmail.ts
index 710b809..1309780 100644
--- a/src/sendEmail.ts
+++ b/src/sendEmail.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
 
   let emailData: Partial<TEmail> = { ...options.data } as Partial<TEmail>
 
-  // If using a template, render it first
   if (options.template) {
     const { html, text, subject } = await renderTemplate(
       payload,
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
       options.template.variables || {}
     )
 
-    // Template values take precedence over data values
     emailData = {
       ...emailData,
       subject,
@@ -70,20 +68,16 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
     throw new Error('Field "to" is required for sending emails')
   }
 
-  // Validate required fields based on whether template was used
   if (options.template) {
-    // When using template, subject and html should have been set by renderTemplate
     if (!emailData.subject || !emailData.html) {
       throw new Error(`Template rendering failed: template "${options.template.slug}" did not provide required subject and html content`)
     }
   } else {
-    // When not using template, user must provide subject and html directly
     if (!emailData.subject || !emailData.html) {
       throw new Error('Fields "subject" and "html" are required when sending direct emails without a template')
     }
   }
 
-  // Process email addresses using shared validation (handle null values)
   if (emailData.to) {
     emailData.to = parseAndValidateEmails(emailData.to as string | string[])
   }
@@ -95,19 +89,15 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
   }
   if (emailData.replyTo) {
     const validated = parseAndValidateEmails(emailData.replyTo as string | string[])
-    // replyTo should be a single email, so take the first one if array
     emailData.replyTo = validated && validated.length > 0 ? validated[0] : undefined
   }
   if (emailData.from) {
     const validated = parseAndValidateEmails(emailData.from as string | string[])
-    // from should be a single email, so take the first one if array
     emailData.from = validated && validated.length > 0 ? validated[0] : undefined
   }
 
-  // Sanitize fromName to prevent header injection
   emailData.fromName = sanitizeFromName(emailData.fromName as string)
 
-  // Normalize Date objects to ISO strings for consistent database storage
   if (emailData.scheduledAt instanceof Date) {
     emailData.scheduledAt = emailData.scheduledAt.toISOString()
   }
@@ -124,19 +114,15 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
     emailData.updatedAt = emailData.updatedAt.toISOString()
   }
 
-  // Create the email in the collection with proper typing
-  // The hooks will automatically create and populate the job relationship
   const email = await payload.create({
     collection: collectionSlug,
     data: emailData
   })
 
-  // Validate that the created email has the expected structure
   if (!email || typeof email !== 'object' || !email.id) {
     throw new Error('Failed to create email: invalid response from database')
   }
 
-  // If processImmediately is true, get the job from the relationship and process it now
   if (options.processImmediately) {
     const logger = createContextLogger(payload, 'IMMEDIATE')
 
@@ -144,17 +130,13 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
       throw new Error('PayloadCMS jobs not configured - cannot process email immediately')
     }
 
-    // Poll for the job with optimized backoff and timeout protection
-    // This handles the async nature of hooks and ensures we wait for job creation
-    const maxAttempts = 5 // Reduced from 10 to minimize delay
-    const initialDelay = 25 // Reduced from 50ms for faster response
-    const maxTotalTime = 3000 // 3 second total timeout
+    const maxAttempts = 5
+    const initialDelay = 25
+    const maxTotalTime = 3000
     const startTime = Date.now()
     let jobId: string | undefined
 
-
     for (let attempt = 0; attempt < maxAttempts; attempt++) {
-      // Check total timeout before continuing
       if (Date.now() - startTime > maxTotalTime) {
         throw new Error(
           `Job polling timed out after ${maxTotalTime}ms for email ${email.id}. ` +
@@ -162,41 +144,31 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
         )
       }
 
-      // Calculate delay with exponential backoff (25ms, 50ms, 100ms, 200ms, 400ms)
-      // Cap at 400ms per attempt for better responsiveness
       const delay = Math.min(initialDelay * Math.pow(2, attempt), 400)
 
       if (attempt > 0) {
         await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, delay))
       }
 
-      // Refetch the email to check for jobs
       const emailWithJobs = await payload.findByID({
         collection: collectionSlug,
         id: email.id,
       })
 
-
       if (emailWithJobs.jobs && emailWithJobs.jobs.length > 0) {
-        // Job found! Get the first job ID (should only be one for a new email)
         const firstJob = Array.isArray(emailWithJobs.jobs) ? emailWithJobs.jobs[0] : emailWithJobs.jobs
         jobId = typeof firstJob === 'string' ? firstJob : String(firstJob.id || firstJob)
         break
       }
 
-      // Log on later attempts to help with debugging (reduced threshold)
-      if (attempt >= 1) {
-        if (attempt >= 2) {
-          logger.debug(`Waiting for job creation for email ${email.id}, attempt ${attempt + 1}/${maxAttempts}`)
-        }
+      if (attempt >= 2) {
+        logger.debug(`Waiting for job creation for email ${email.id}, attempt ${attempt + 1}/${maxAttempts}`)
       }
     }
 
     if (!jobId) {
-      // Distinguish between different failure scenarios for better error handling
       const timeoutMsg = Date.now() - startTime >= maxTotalTime
       const errorType = timeoutMsg ? 'POLLING_TIMEOUT' : 'JOB_NOT_FOUND'
-
       const baseMessage = timeoutMsg
         ? `Job polling timed out after ${maxTotalTime}ms for email ${email.id}`
         : `No processing job found for email ${email.id} after ${maxAttempts} attempts (${Date.now() - startTime}ms)`