Formatting plain text emails - the 4 golden rules

By David Greiner

December 16, 2004

5 Comments

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. Doug
    November 20, 2005 12:49am

    Um, your first two paragraphs on this page are exactly the same…problem with formatting?  :-)

  2. Dave Greiner
    November 21, 2005 9:54am

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

  3. Eujenio
    January 12, 2006 4:59am

    Very useful info!  thanks for the tips!!!

  4. Cyle Plumer
    June 24, 2006 4:50am

    Thank you so much! YOU ROCK!!

  5. Steve
    October 3, 2006 11:47pm

    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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@iamacyborg Ahh, I see - similar to the second solution at http://t.co/zhvEL05c if I understood correctly? A tricky issue for sure! ^SM

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