Last year, Litmus held a community contest which theme was “Emails Worth Forwarding”. In order to participate, I created an email I called Super Mail Forward. It’s an email you can forward between the desktop webmails of…

Last August, I wrote an article about trying to make sense of Gmail CSS support. Barely two weeks after, Google announced an update, or may I say the most important update ever made to Gmail, adding (among other…

Last year, Microsoft announced it would replace its webmail Outlook.com by a version powered by the same engine as Office 365. Last month, Microsoft specified it is currently rolling out this new version of Outlook.com to users worldwide. While…

Not every webmails or mail applications support media queries. In order to adapt an email layout from mobile to desktop, it is important to find technical solutions that don’t rely on its use. And luckily, the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module (Flexbox) allows exactly that. Flexbox is…

Last week, I had the honor to speak at The Email Design Conference in London (aka TEDC16 or #LitmusLive). I gave a talk I called “Thinking Outside the <table>”. It’s a mix of some of my previous articles, like Super Mail Forward, Using Flexbox in an Email or The…

Email clients block images. Campaign Monitor and Litmus already have detailed articles explaining when that happens. But I always wondered how that happens. That is, how do webmails block images when they don’t display them by default? So I made a few tests focusing on images…