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I'm pleasantly surprised that amazon actually sends plain text emails. Pretty much every other corporation insists on HTML mails.
I just checked, and they don't. It's certainly plain looking and without fancy styling/formatting, but they do send content-type text/html. The links and tracking pixel images are why they need HTML, I guess.
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I'm pleasantly surprised that amazon actually sends plain text emails. Pretty much every other corporation insists on HTML mails.
I just checked, and they don't. It's certainly plain looking and without fancy styling/formatting, but they do send content-type text/html. The links and tracking pixel images are why they need HTML, I guess.
I don't understand the insistence on building "beautiful" emails. I'm not the kind of person to insist on text-only e-mail, but I do think it's ridiculous to spend lots of time and money making e-mails that look like fully-fledged Web documents. Either your message does have some useful information for the reader, in which case say that and then get out of my way, or it doesn't , in which case you're a spammer. There…
There's no chance a business today can work with plain text documents at scale. Virtually all email clients support html since a decade and the expectations user have todays have changed. To put it differently, it looks unprofessional.
Especially when dealing with technology, consistent branding actually has an important safety factor for consumers.
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I just checked, and they don't. It's certainly plain looking and without fancy styling/formatting, but they do send content-type text/html. The links and tracking pixel images are why they need HTML, I guess.
This appears to be untrue. I looked at all the amazon emails in my inbox and they are all: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
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You can't get the end result by automation alone but you could automate half of it. 1) Use AppScript from google to find those. 2) Save all the links. 3) Go through them manually (because each service will want you to confirm you did not click by mistake).
Virus scanners and other tools like google will fetch any urls in emails to check their target. So having a direct unsubscribe action behind GET of a link breaks your email list as Gmail will unsubscribe everyone
Text. Just use damn text. Nobody wants to look at your logo. Why biz people have to ruin everything.
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You can't get the end result by automation alone but you could automate half of it. 1) Use AppScript from google to find those. 2) Save all the links. 3) Go through them manually (because each service will want you to confirm you did not click by mistake).
Virus scanners and other tools like google will fetch any urls in emails to check their target. So having a direct unsubscribe action behind GET of a link breaks your email list as Gmail will unsubscribe everyone
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So, spam.
Is transactional email spam?
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I just checked, and they don't. It's certainly plain looking and without fancy styling/formatting, but they do send content-type text/html. The links and tracking pixel images are why they need HTML, I guess.
Tracking pixel in an email? I thought nobody had done that in decades because major webmail clients pre-cache all images to prevent leaking user IP etc.