[WebPub] best practice for html email announcements

Barbara L Malec bmalec at MIT.EDU
Thu Nov 4 16:00:12 EDT 2010


Hi Julie,

Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

http://www.mailchimp.com/kb/article/how-spam-filters-think/

-Barbara

On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Julie Ellen Pryor jpryor at MIT.EDU wrote:

> Hi all -
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> We occasionally send out html-based email announcements to large groups of people via our filemaker database. I have since learned that some of these people are not receiving our email announcements because their email programs are interpreting our announcements as spam. Our emails are fairly basic in nature but they do typically include an image. I have no way of knowing how many people are receiving our emails or not (although I think most are getting them) but I'm wondering if there is anything we should be doing to *decrease* the chances of our emails being tossed into the dreaded spam folder... 
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> What is best practice for html-based email announcements? SHould we avoid the use of images, for example?
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> Thanks for any insight you can provide!
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