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Notes from the Dev: Gmail Clipping and Enterprise Personalization 

Gmail clipping can be an issue for lots of emails. Sometimes, unnecessary lines of code are the culprit because, even though there’s nothing there, it still causes bloat. One way that can happen is when senders using enterprise software include dynamic, personalized content in email campaigns.  In this episode of Notes from the Dev: Video … Continue reading “Notes from the Dev: Gmail Clipping and Enterprise Personalization “

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Gmail Email Clipping | How Developers Can Avoid It

There is a lot going on in the email world right now – *eh hem* Apple Mail Privacy Protection. But I figured we’d take a moment to look at an email client behavior that’s been around for a while – Gmail email clipping. What are we talking about here? When you send an email to … Continue reading “Gmail Email Clipping | How Developers Can Avoid It”

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The Gmail App is Cutting Off My Emails, What Gives?!

The Gmail app for iOS has a nasty habit of ‘clipping‘ emails, or cutting their contents short, and adding a button that says ‘Download entire message.’ This could potentially hide an email’s main content or call to action, but really any extra step a reader has to take is a huge stumbling block to the success of an email campaign. After clicking ‘Download entire message’ the rest of the email appears within the viewing pane.

My testing did reveal a number of interesting things about Gmail clipping. I’ll discuss them in this blog, but you can just skip down to the cheat-sheet if you want the down-low.