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How is it even possible to track the open rate without HTML? I'm not an email expert and genuinely curious. I was under the impression that people use <img> ta
by jannes 9y ago
How is it even possible to track the open rate without HTML? I'm not an email expert and genuinely curious.
I was under the impression that people use <img> tags for that.
- homero 9y agoYou definitely use html but only <p>, etc
- icc97 9y agoBasically markdown output converted to html
- catshirt 9y agothe article is anti-design. not anti-html.
- jasongill 9y agoWhen he says "plain text email", what he means is "HTML email with very little styling". Sending true plain text email without a multipart HTML section is much worse for deliverability, from my experience (assumedly because plaintext emails are almost always "automatic emails")
- hannob 9y ago> Sending true plain text email without a multipart HTML section is much worse for deliverability, from my experience (assumedly because plaintext emails are almost always "automatic emails") I find that statement very surprising. I haven't sent a single HTML mail in... all the time since I started using email. I never had deliverability problems that I could trace down to the mails being text. (I also have surprisingly few deliverability problems to begin with and my gut feeling is 90% of hostmaster complains can be described as "you've been blocked by the spam filter because you were sending spam".)
- foo101 9y agoWhy is sending true plain text email worse for deliverability?
- hendi_ 9y agoIt's still HTML, just completely unstyled. So there's still support for including tracking images.