Testing HTML email rendering

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Are there any good tools to easily test how HTML email will look across different email clients  I prefer something with instant feed back rather than a submit and wait service like http   litmusapp com Or at the very least a way to test the Outlook 2007 MS Word rendering   I found this related question but it doesn t specifically address testing  What guidelines for HTML email design are there

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Yes  you can use any of these popular tools   Litmus https   litmusapp com  MailChimp https   www mailchimp com  CampaignMonitor https   www campaignmonitor com  Testi  https   testi at  Email on Acid   https   www emailonacid com  Email2Go https   email2go io

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If you are converting your HTML pages to Email  You should check  Premailer    It converts CSS to inline CSS and also tests the compatibility with major email clients

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Direct Mail is an OS X desktop app that can show you previews of what your email will look like in a variety of email clients   http   directmailmac com mac-email-design   Full Disclosure  I work for the developers of Direct Mail

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Campaign Monitor is quite popular and offers previews for many popular email clients

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You could also use PutsMail to test your emails before sending them   PutsMail is a tool to test HTML emails that will be sent as campaigns  newsletters and others  please  don t use it to spam  help us to make a better world   Main features   Check HTML  amp  CSS compatibility with email clients Easily send HTML emails for approval or to check how it looks like in email clients

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I found emailonacid com today  beta  currently free     - have only played with it a little but so far so good  It simulates the following clients    AOL 9 Entourage 2004  amp  2008 Gmail Hotmail  Windows Live Mail Windows Mail Mac Mail Outlook 2003  amp  2007  Thunderbird 2  3  amp  Beta  Yahoo Classic   Yahoo Mail   The very helpful thing about this service is it tells you what code is not supported in which client        Edit  Not free anymore  but provides a 7 day free trial

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I ve used most of them and can tell you that the best method is to test directly to each client  Once you are comfortable with sending you can send tests of your emails to gmail and if the design doesn t break then it s pretty safe on modern email clients   You can check what is supported on which client here   http   www email-standards org

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If you don t want to use a submission service like Litmus  Litmus is the best  BTW  then you re just going to have to run Outlook 2007 to test your email   It sounds like you want something a little more automatic  though I m not sure why   but fortunately Outlook is easy to automate using Visual Basic for Applications  VBA    You can write a VBA tool that runs from the command line to generate an email  load the email up in Outlook  and even capture a screenshot if you wish    Presumably this is what the Litmus team does on the backend     BTW  do not attempt to use MS Word to test mail  the renderer is similar but subtle differences in page layout can affect the rendering of your email

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Another thing you could try is to upload the html to a webpage and then open the webpage in word to test Outlook

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