From spam to scams, email gets a bad rap sometimes.
As an email developer, we're faced with challenges such as a lack of email standards and inconsistent rendering across devices.
Ask me anything.
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How can I make my resume standout as an email developer with no job experience?
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My advice would be to try to draw connections between what experience you do have (job-related, course work-related, personal projects, etc) to what skills are relevant to the email developer role you are applying for.
Knowing the difference between coding for email and web would be something to showcase, your experience with browser testing, responsive design, saving assets for the web, etc are skills that are relevant as an email developer.
Are you the Nigerian Prince that I helped?
I don't know what you're talking about...
Do you have any observations on click/open tracking best practices?
How should I think about email? Any useful models/metaphors?
Thanks for doing the AMA!
How feasible is it to self-host our own mail server today? What software stack and hosting should we use for the same? I have heard a lot of talk 3-4 years back about the centralization of email in hands of GMail, MS Outlook and Amazon with a few niche providers like fastmail and protonmail and issues with reliable delivery of email if you use your own servers.
I was an email developer for a long time so I know the struggle! What platform is your current arch enemy?
Mine was Outlook 2013 for a while, but what was most annoying about fixing Outlook problems was the amount of Microsoft stooges in StackOverflow that would just point everyone to the MSDN article about the supported CSS properties which was often wrong or wouldn't address weird problems like how table cells couldn't be less than 15px tall ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Welcome to the club! Are you in the Email Geeks Chat group?
Outlook had always been a pain point. Where I work, we mostly email people who have company email addresses, so Outlook is a big part of our audience that we have to be aware of. Lately, Outlook 365 has been rolled out which has introduced new quirks.
What would you suggest to use in case of building a custom email composer for newsletters?
Is there anything like bootstrap framework for emails?
Yes! There are several email frameworks out there. I learn about a new one every few months :)
Here's a repo with some of the common email frameworks listed
github.com/jonathandion/awesome-em...
How the deliverability concerns change when the recipient group expands from 1k, to 100k, to 1m and beyond?
What's the right situation to have a text-only email send out vs. a designed text email vs. a fully-laid-out email?