If you want to send someone an email with some text in it there are quite a few different ways you can do it. The main differences are the ways the text is packaged up in MIME entities to be sent. text/plain This is the simplest sort of text you can send. If you send a simple email with many desktop mail clients, this is what you get. You can’t include images, you can’t choose fonts...
One of the questions I get from folks about delivery is what the optimal text to image ratio there should be in an email. I’ll be honest, I hate this question. Why? Because the question is actually irrelevant. I’ve seen companies with a single image and no text get to the inbox. I’ve seen companies with no images get to the inbox. The text to image ratio is not going to make or...
I received this email earlier this week, an email that I wanted but this is how it arrived. The email contained a single image link, a text line of who the message was sent to, the senders name, address, and finally an unsubscribe link. Good news, the email is CAN-SPAM compliant! Bad news, I have no idea what the content of the message is and it looks somewhat spammy. The email was sent to my...
Chris from Cloudmark tracks a UK text spammer.
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