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Presentation by Manuel Lemos (PHPClasses.org) on Email Deliverability

create a website — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:37:34 +0000

Had a bit of a break from posting while I have been travelling with work. Back now and so should be posting a bit more regularly.

Found this great presentation today on Slideshare by Manuel Lemos of PHPClasses.org:
“Sending E-mail that reaches the destination using PHP”.

It provides a basic overview of email protocols and systems and covers best practices to ensure email gets through, including specific reference to PHP classes he wrote. The MIME Email Message Sending PHP Class is really useful.

Microsoft Outlook 2007 Sucks at HTML email

create a website — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:53:37 +0000

Microsoft – why don’t you just disable HTML email in Outlook 2007 rather than implement it so badly?

It now uses Microsoft Word’s rendering engine. The interesting thing is what happens when you forward on an email. You can view the source in Outlook which hides the transformations it is applying – but it isn’t until you forward it and view the source of that email that you can see what trash it is converting it too.

Why should I have to revert to using a table to create a simple border round a block of text when this should be able to be achieved with a div and css?

According to this list of what isn’t supported at Sitepoint (Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007) …

no support for background images (HTML or CSS)
no support for forms
no support for Flash, or other plugins
no support for CSS floats
no support for replacing bullets with images in unordered lists
no support for CSS positioning
no support for animated GIFs

you can add inconsistent support for most everything else!

Someone is going to make a fortune on the problem of email overload

create a website — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:14:30 +0000

Great article on the problems of being more easily contactable in the internet age. The author talks about email bankruptcy (deleting an overloaded inbox and starting again) and the issue of his current inbox of 2000+ messages.

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