Html emails

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It would be great if I could build stand-alone html emails with Blocs.

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And html signatures, it would be a great tool

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Both email and signature are just HTML. You can make them with Blocs.

The tricky things is that email clients have limitations to the interpretation of tags and more even with CSS. And no JavaScript either.

You can easily find resources on the web listing tags and CSS properties correctly interpreted by email clients.

Within Blocs it could be interesting to have templates for emails and signatures (Eldar ?).

Alternatively there are various services to make and manage HTML emails. I’m using Direct Mail for Mac, a free application. They get money by selling credits to send mass emails.

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The idea is that you could apply a rich design on a file, Not a simple stuff, and with an easy and fast way. I usually use Beefree but a native, offline and unlimited app would be great.

I you export a file right from blocs it wouldn’t work and you have to tweak all the file to make it work making a very time consuming and tedious task

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html emails have a lot of restrictions, and you can’t just use frameworks like Bootstrap. There are projects that work around this like Bootstrap Email that converts everything to inline styles for you.

The developers of Bootstrap Studio made Mail Studio. I tried it out a few years back. But it doesn’t look like it got much traction, which is a shame.

MJML is probably a good approach for html emails and is designed to help solve email client inconsistencies. You can go old school, or there are online visual editors that will do the work for you like this one here

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You’re right. I forgot that the CSS has to be inline.
There are website around where you can change CSS to inline CSS.
And with AI of course.

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ditto, that’s where I am, use Beefree to compose and Brevo to send. The builder at Brevo is very limited. Beefree is solid but another $30/month.

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I use Beefree to compose and Brevo to send. The builder at Brevo is very limited. Beefree is solid but another $30/month.

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I use Direct Mail for Mac. I can use it in various ways. It really suits my needs, perhaps yours too…

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Brevo is much less expensive for sending.

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