The battle for web standards in browsers has largely been won — browsers are much better than even, and even those manufacturers that still have room to improve appear to be making sincere efforts to do so. But, the same can not be said for e-mail clients. Some (like Mail.app and Thunderbird) mooch off existing rendering engines (WebKit and Gecko, respectively), and therefore do a great job of rendering HTML and CSS e-mail. Others do a ridiculously poor job.
Love it or hate it, HTML e-mail is here to stay, and I’m glad to see someone setting out to solve the rendering problem in e-mail clients much the same way the web standards movement solved the rendering problem in browsers. The client tests alone are worth bookmarking this site for. Visit site »
Porn and such now accounts for only three percent of junk mail. My completely uneducated analysis is that porn, unlike drugs and financial “advice”, is something people actually seek out on their own. There’s less need to send unsolicited advertisements, because people actually want porn. Visit site »
Mike is the latest of many to weigh in on how much e-mail sucks these days (and I couldn’t agree more). He does so with a clever, fun, and highly accurate interactive animation. Visit site »
Angie gives some great tips for freelancers and other entrepreneurs on how to handle e-mail in a business-like fashion. Visit site »
This Mail.app plugin will save you from the mistake all of uf have made at least a million times (this week). Visit site »
Incredibly thorough and insanely useful. A complete guide showing what mail clients support what CSS elements. include PC, Mac, and web-based e-mail clients. Visit site »
A themer for Tiger’s Mail program, which includes a default shin with Safari-like button. I’m enjoying looking at my Mail a lot more since Job Hicks pointed out this baby. Visit site »