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That's an anticompetitive move. If you need to switch senders for some reason, the inspector is the only clean way to get an email's HTML into another ESP.

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Is that true?

An email client like Thunderbird or Mail will save a copy of the email on your local hard drive, which will include the HTML. This isn't something I do regularly, but would be first first response if I needed to see the HTML of an email. Maybe Mailchimp has protections against this route too?

Yes, it's true. You don't want all the chrome from the actual send around the body of your email because the other ESP will be providing that. You might also want to prevent certain fields and links from converting into the send versions. But in a pinch, sure, you could slice the body out of a copy in Thunderbird.

Makes no sense. If you’re considering switching to a different provider, getting blocked makes it impossible to continue to use the service?

Yes it does. Say you're an agency sending email on behalf of several different organizations. If you export one to send through CampaignMonitor (usually list or domain approval related), the employee who pulled the HTML gets their hand slapped by the IP ban. It's less likely to happen next time with a different campaign or different client. I haven't actually experienced the IP ban but I've sent for the same organization through multiple ESPs without quitting one for good.

Even if you are a single organization user and leaving for good, you might do so gradually or perform test sends first. Speaking from experience again.

If my agency were hit with this, I'd plan switching ASAP.

Can you just view the RAW email body after it's sent?

Could it be that MailChimp consider this move (copying their HTML template used with your e-mail content) to be copyright infringement ?

I’m sure that’s at least part of how they see it.

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