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HTML or Plain Text: Let Your Recipients Decide

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Of course, as an email marketer you love HTML messages. But the recipients, your customers, may not like them that much. They may not even open them.

That's why you should put them in control and

  • offer a text version of all your mailings
  • your recipients can subscribe to instead of the HTML version.

Another good alternative: sending your emails as multipart/alternative.

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