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Any "HTML emails" get filtered straight into the spam folder here. I think I'm not part of the target audience here.
Is that a thing? Is it safer to use plain text emails?
Anything that makes email development easier is great I guess, but have personally found MJML great for solving the issues you'd run into, and not sure I want yet another abstraction layer on top of that which makes it more limited...
It still uses MJML for the actual templates, but it is a translation layer between markdown and the template itself.
If you need to author a lot of emails with LLM this does seem like it would be a great fit.
Very nice. I think the kind of folks attracted to this thread might have some thoughts on a workflow I'm interested in. When I see a news article, I want to be able to click a button on my Mac or iPhone to send the text of the article in the body of the email. Bonus points for rehosting the images from the article. And using a similar font both without carrying over any of the original external dependencies. Normally…
Use the browser reader mode, select all, right click send email. Is it something like that you want?
that would eliminate most html usage and enable longer texts than 70-85 characters per line.
Anything that makes email development easier is great I guess, but have personally found MJML great for solving the issues you'd run into, and not sure I want yet another abstraction layer on top of that which makes it more limited...
They address this in the docs - it is meant to make authoring the content easier for LLMs since that is easy for them to write. It still uses MJML for the actual templates, but it is a translation layer between markdown and the template itself. If you need to author a lot of emails with LLM this does seem like it would be a great fit.
In my experience models tend to break HTML layouts pretty easily, while Markdown degrades more gracefully.