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Is there anywhere else that I can send HTML emails from? It sounds very limited and difficult to do, based on your description on your site!

duck 14y ago
I highly recommend MailChimp. I use them for my newsletter and the fact you can start using them for free with up to 2000 subscribers is very nice.
- fudged71 14y ago
  I'm curious more along the lines of personalized emails to users of a service. As far as I know, MailChimp is more about blasting one message to lots of people. Unless I'm mistaken :)
  - duck 14y ago
    Oh, okay. In that case you want to look at transactional email services. MailChimp offers that as well with https://mandrill.com https://mandrill.com, but there are a ton of other offerings as well like http://sendgrid.com http://sendgrid.com.
    - fudged71 14y ago
      That mandrill site is slick! Thanks for the links
tomwalsham 14y ago
At PostageApp.com we focus on transactional emails, which these days are moving heavily towards HTML email as a standard now that deliverability is much more focused on IP reputation than content. We provide a templating system which allows you to build and preview with separate HTML and CSS, and we compile to inline CSS at runtime to ensure compatibility with the majority of email clients. The painful thing to remember is that html/css for email is a weird mix of HTML3 and HTML5 - meaning some major providers only allow for basic functionality, but other platforms support the bleeding edge while omitting some of the simpler aspects. In the end your demographics will strongly influence where you focus your efforts. The templates from Zurb here are a great basis - as a start on a responsive email boilerplate this will be great value to the community - individuals using this for customization will hopefully push the development of these bases further.

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Is there anywhere else that I can send HTML emails from? It sounds very limited and difficult to do, based on your description on your site!

by fudged71 14y ago

duck 14y ago
I highly recommend MailChimp. I use them for my newsletter and the fact you can start using them for free with up to 2000 subscribers is very nice.
- fudged71 14y ago
  I'm curious more along the lines of personalized emails to users of a service. As far as I know, MailChimp is more about blasting one message to lots of people. Unless I'm mistaken :)
  - duck 14y ago
    Oh, okay. In that case you want to look at transactional email services. MailChimp offers that as well with https://mandrill.com https://mandrill.com, but there are a ton of other offerings as well like http://sendgrid.com http://sendgrid.com.
    - fudged71 14y ago
      That mandrill site is slick! Thanks for the links
tomwalsham 14y ago
At PostageApp.com we focus on transactional emails, which these days are moving heavily towards HTML email as a standard now that deliverability is much more focused on IP reputation than content. We provide a templating system which allows you to build and preview with separate HTML and CSS, and we compile to inline CSS at runtime to ensure compatibility with the majority of email clients. The painful thing to remember is that html/css for email is a weird mix of HTML3 and HTML5 - meaning some major providers only allow for basic functionality, but other platforms support the bleeding edge while omitting some of the simpler aspects. In the end your demographics will strongly influence where you focus your efforts. The templates from Zurb here are a great basis - as a start on a responsive email boilerplate this will be great value to the community - individuals using this for customization will hopefully push the development of these bases further.