Formatting plain text emails - the 4 golden rules

Published December 16, 2004 by David Greiner

Just like HTML emails, different email software will display your text-only emails in different ways. While there is no guarantee that your emails will always be displayed as intended, there are a few golden rules you can follow to ensure that the outcome is as close as possible to your original.

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  1. Dave Greiner
    November 21, 2005 10:54am

    You got me there Doug, fixed. Thanks for the heads up.

  2. Eujenio
    January 12, 2006 5:59am

    Very useful info!  thanks for the tips!!!

  3. Cyle Plumer
    June 24, 2006 5:50am

    Thank you so much! YOU ROCK!!

  4. Steve
    October 4, 2006 12:47am

    Thanks… I’ve encountered problems inputting a text version into CM and when I hit the ‘next’ button, a huge portion of the text version is not taken in. I’m not sure if there’s something to be said about the text encoding, taking from a certain program and copying it and pasting it into the browser, but I’ve experienced a pain with this and am curious if others have as well.
    If so, I’d like to hear about it and if anyone knows a solution on what I’m doing, please email me (steve [at] fifthroomcreative.com)
    Thanks.

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