How about not sending html emails?
The joy of using Mutt. Plain text and no flashy markup or images.
Except when they send you an html email with the plain text attachment saying only "your mail reader is incompatible" or whatever.
Free Email Templates for Developers
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Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#12Great to see this using mjml [0] which I think is a great way to quickly create good looking and responsive emails. Many of the benefits mentioned are a direct of using mjml, I think ;-)
There is also a visual code plugin to preview mjml formatted emails plus they offer an api to convert mjml to html on the fly.
[0] https://mjml.io/
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#13PSA: mildly risky click if you follow the link to the CodedMails Unsplash Collection. Not sure which template needs the pantsless girl losing her Star Wars t-shirt. Maybe one of the Notifications templates?
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#14All of these would probably look like garbage in mutt. ;) I wish companies would focus more on content, rather than form. Recently I got a garbage html email from paypal telling me my donation account will be blocked by a certain date, but the sentence ended abruptly without a date they were referencing. They spend huge amount of time on large amount of weird html markup, but screw up on an actual useful content. Any…
Wouldn't that be a token problem, which could happen in a text version as well?
I used mutt for over 10 years, and gave up a few years ago. Having clear emails also includes having a good design.
Regardless of form, most companies go through cycles of cramming more and more clutter in emails, before restarting from scratch, and eventually back to clutter again.
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#15The title should be amended to "free for non-commercial use."
License here says MIT: https://github.com/hunzaboy/codedmails
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#16Thanks for sharing these! As someone who had been working on a newsletter for over 2 years with no time to look into styling at all these seems very useful :). I'll definitely give them a shot at one point!
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#17All of these would probably look like garbage in mutt. ;) I wish companies would focus more on content, rather than form. Recently I got a garbage html email from paypal telling me my donation account will be blocked by a certain date, but the sentence ended abruptly without a date they were referencing. They spend huge amount of time on large amount of weird html markup, but screw up on an actual useful content. Any…
In general they would probably look like garbage in any email client that provides a secure place to look at HTML emails. It isn't just text mode clients that have that issue.
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#18The title should be amended to "free for non-commercial use."
License here says MIT: https://github.com/hunzaboy/codedmails
License here says otherwise: https://codedmails.com/premium
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#19Seems not bad, but the free part is the rendered template with tons of inline `style='...'` bits all over. Not really a usable template.
As someone who just wants to write internal html email reports that don't look half bad in gmail, I wonder where I should be looking.
Re: Free Email Templates for Developers
#20All of these would probably look like garbage in mutt. ;) I wish companies would focus more on content, rather than form. Recently I got a garbage html email from paypal telling me my donation account will be blocked by a certain date, but the sentence ended abruptly without a date they were referencing. They spend huge amount of time on large amount of weird html markup, but screw up on an actual useful content. Any…
> does anyone know if text only (rather than html) messages more likely to get past spam/newsletter filters?
At least SpamAssassin checks for that, and IIRC HTML increases the spam score by default.