Email

Gmail rolls back changes that strip CSS with background images.

After a week of angst as Google appeared to be rolling out changes in some Gmail accounts that strip CSS with background images it appears Google has acknowledged the issue and is rolling the change back. Update Aug 6: 10 days after

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A Technical Take on iOS15 Mail Privacy Protection

By now the topic of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection change for the upcoming iOS 15 is on everyone’s lips.  A Brief Overview On June 7, during Apple’s WWDC21 conference, it announced Mail Privacy Protection for their Mail app on iOS 15, iPadOS

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Testing Apple’s Pixelgeddon: How To Build Your Own Email “Open” Tracking Pixel

During this year’s Apple WWDC conference, Apple announced an upcoming feature for iOS 15 that will be available for iOS devices called Mail Privacy Protection. One of the major features of Mail Privacy Protection is that images will be downloaded in the

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Gmail Starts Displaying Email Annotations Within the Main Promotions Tab List

Gmail annotations was a big development that Google brought to promotional emails in the Promotions tab. Originally, only two annotated emails were displayed at the top of the Promotions tab.

However, it is looking like Gmail is starting to display emails with

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A Free, Quick Tool to Test Your Email in Dark Mode

Have you always wanted a quick and easy way to test your emails in dark mode without having to send a test to your device? Good news! I built a Dark Mode for Email Simulator. Check the legibility of your text, logo

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Gmail is Stripping Ids and Classes From Elements in Classic Version [Update: fixed]

[Update: This has been fixed.]

Gmail rolled out a new version of the UI in Beta in April, however it looks like in the process of migrating users to the new UI a few days ago the "old" Gmail suddenly reverted to a

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AMP for Email: What You Need to Know About Google’s New Interactive Email Effort

AMP for Email is a subset of AMP that, like AMP, offers Javascript-like functionality for email. Since all email clients block Javascript by default, AMP offers a limited, and secure alternative to Javascript without giving senders the ability to run arbitrary code

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Email Monks Email Design Contest

The folks at Email Monks are running a design contest with some pretty cool prizes. If you want a chance to show off that cool interactive email you built last year, now is the time to do it! The contest ends on

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Filmstrip Technique: Interactive Email in The Android Gmail App

Three of the biggest gripes about interactive email I hear (other than its a fad), is that interactive email is too complicated, its not supported in Gmail and that it won’t work in MailChimp. Here’s a technique that addresses all three!...

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“Fake” Background Image Technique for Gmail App for Non Google Accounts (GANGA)

Rémi Parmentier wrote about an experimental technique that allows background images to work in the Gmail Android App for Non Google Accounts (GANGA). You see when Gmail announced support for embedded styles and media queries in the Gmail App, they neglected to

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