Comments on: Email Marketing Tips: #5 Test, Test, Test http://www.emailbroadcast.com/blog/2009/10/email-marketing-tips-5-test-test-test/ Email Marketing That Rocks. Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:49:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ken Mahar http://www.emailbroadcast.com/blog/2009/10/email-marketing-tips-5-test-test-test/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Ken Mahar Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:51:26 +0000 http://www.emailbroadcast.com/blog/?p=223#comment-63 David, Thanks for the comment! We can assure you that this is a current issue for Microsoft. Try going here: http://fixoutlook.org/ David,

Thanks for the comment! We can assure you that this is a current issue for Microsoft. Try going here: http://fixoutlook.org/

]]> By: David Smith http://www.emailbroadcast.com/blog/2009/10/email-marketing-tips-5-test-test-test/comment-page-1/#comment-62 David Smith Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:15:28 +0000 http://www.emailbroadcast.com/blog/?p=223#comment-62 "And don’t even get me started on Outlook 2007. Although a lot of people use this to look at email, it is by far the worst as far as standardized email formatting. Something about Outlook 2007 using Microsoft Word to run the HTML through causes many email templates to look like they went through a meat grinder." (sorry, but this just sounds like a bunch of anti-corporate drool) Actually, that's called user error. I've been using Outlook 2007 for around two years and have never experienced anything like this. For the past year, I have received 3,500 messages per day, on average. I view incoming messages in Outlook 2007, Gmail and my .com addresses. I preview the majority of my outgoing messages in those and several others. Every message that I view in multiple clients/services displays basically the same across the board, with the only exception being the width of the viewing pane. What likely happens is, you receive a message from one of those stone-agers who still hard-break their lines at 56 or 72 characters and you view it in a viewing pane narrower than 56 or 72 characters (respectively). Outlook 2007, along with Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo and other modern clients and services, wrap lines. So, if the window is even 1 character smaller than the pre-formatted message, things will look a bit torn up or there will be a horizontal scroll bar. That one paragraph makes it sound as though the date on this post should be 1996, but every time I look, I swear it reads 2009. .-= David Smith´s last blog ..<a href="http://blog.greystormmedia.com/how-to-avoid-stupid-email-marketing-mistakes" rel="nofollow">How to Avoid Stupid E-Mail Marketing Mistakes</a> =-. “And don’t even get me started on Outlook 2007. Although a lot of people use this to look at email, it is by far the worst as far as standardized email formatting. Something about Outlook 2007 using Microsoft Word to run the HTML through causes many email templates to look like they went through a meat grinder.” (sorry, but this just sounds like a bunch of anti-corporate drool)

Actually, that’s called user error. I’ve been using Outlook 2007 for around two years and have never experienced anything like this. For the past year, I have received 3,500 messages per day, on average. I view incoming messages in Outlook 2007, Gmail and my .com addresses. I preview the majority of my outgoing messages in those and several others. Every message that I view in multiple clients/services displays basically the same across the board, with the only exception being the width of the viewing pane.

What likely happens is, you receive a message from one of those stone-agers who still hard-break their lines at 56 or 72 characters and you view it in a viewing pane narrower than 56 or 72 characters (respectively).

Outlook 2007, along with Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo and other modern clients and services, wrap lines. So, if the window is even 1 character smaller than the pre-formatted message, things will look a bit torn up or there will be a horizontal scroll bar.

That one paragraph makes it sound as though the date on this post should be 1996, but every time I look, I swear it reads 2009.
David Smith´s last blog ..How to Avoid Stupid E-Mail Marketing Mistakes

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