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Targeted: Simple email testing

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> DO YOU ONLY OFFER SCREENSHOT PREVIEWS? We believe it's important to start with a problem and solve it as simply as possible rather than an 'all-in-one system'. As we get many requests for a particular feature, we will add it.

Why so defensive? I don't even know what the alternative would be, so a "Yes, that's all you need to start testing your emails" would be a much better answer for me.

But now I'm curious: What would be the alternative to screenshots?

It's the style of writing we wanted to take for our FAQ as these were the questions being asked.

At this point in time, there isn't an alternative to screenshots unless you emulate/reproduce the mailing engine for each client, but then, you can't be 100% sure what you're seeing is accurate.

An example of a new feature that we have added is sending directly from your email marketing software. Say you've set up your HTML email in MailChimp ready to send, click 'Send a test' and paste in your unique Targeted.io email address, and it'll appear in your dashboard within seconds.

Ok, so there is no better way than screenshots to test if it looks good in a mail client anyway.

Still don't get why it is formulated in this way, but keep it the way you want.

A real "about us" would be nice - who is behind this, what did they do before. Right now it doesn't tell me much "about" and "us".

You can find names of this 2 people team here : https://targeted.io/press

Actually, I'm looking for a service that allows me to:

- test whether emails I send actually end up in the inbox of my customers (not in their spam filter)

- buffer outgoing generated email, such that I can review them before they are really sent (or send them if I don't review them within say 48 hours)

Also, isn't there some open source validation tool, that can also convert any valid HTML into HTML that is accepted by all/most clients?

Mail Monitor will so the first or those two things for you.

Definitely. Targeted tells you if it's ended up in spam and probable reasons why it did.

With outgoing generated email, we are only a testing client at the moment until we get enough requests to do sending too.

Has the battle against HTML emails been lost?

I wouldn't be surprised if HTML emails convert better (not for the HN crowd, obviously).

Most newsletters I subscribe to still use multipart, thankfully. If I'm not mistaken, Campaign Monitor and Mailchimp require you to have a plain text version for your campaigns.

I agree with you completely. I was waiting for someone to reply with this. HTML emails convert better than almost any other marketing channel. You just can't beat it, as much as people complain about it.

I think so. It's what all my clients always want.

Me, I still yearn for the happy days when I could use Mutt and just occasionally spawn a browser if I had to. Apple Mail, which I now use, is appalling, and the only alternatives seem to be either worse, weird, or only work with Gmail.

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