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A email or document containing a one or more news stories that will be distributed to a group of subscribers.

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Is setting a hidden field efficient against bot?

I am fighting against future bot spamers for my newsletter form subscription. I want to keep the form simple make the procedure fast so I do not use a captcha but an hidden form to trap bots. Is it efficient or bots know how to recognize an hidden…
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Programming & Software Development News / Newsletters

I currently subscribe to MSDN Flash and Red Gate's developer newsletter, which is great. I'd like to find more sources. Where/Who else sends or posts news or articles about software development?
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Is it true that newsletters in HTML should have a "table-based" layouts?

I read somewhere that when creating a HTML email, you should use the table-based layout. You should not care about creating tableless css based layout. Is that true? I have to create a newsletter layout for my company, but I dont feel confortable…
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Email tracking techniques in php

I am doing a newsletter Management in php. I need to track the visitors who opens our newsletter, I have inserted the tracking image in newsletter thats seems to work little. Using Shift mailer there is option to embed an inline image to newsletter.…
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Html charts in email without using javascript

I'm looking for nice charts for my newsletter. Since javascript is not email friendly I need an html only solution. I'll send email once a month with statistics of user's performance and stuff done during the month. So what do you think is the…
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Create a link that automatically fills a field on the target page

I'm coding a newsletter and the guy that asked me to do it wants a link in it...all perfect no problems... Now the problem is that when you click on this link it goes on a page with fields and the guy asked me if it's possible to automatically fill…
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text-decoration:none; being ignored in Outlook 2007

Is there a way to make text-decoration:none; work for links in a newsletter when viewed in Outlook 2007? I've tried inline styles in the head and body, applied directly to the anchor tags and a combination of all three. Outlook 2007 still shows…
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Set subscriber status in Magento programmatically

I am trying to write a module that syncs my newsletter subscribers in Magento with a external database. I need to be able to update the subscription status in Magento programmatically but I am having diffuculty getting the "setStatus" method in…
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iOS email disable automatic link on names

I just noticed that with the latest iOS software 11.2.6 on iPhone Mail App some singer names inside a HTML newsletter are automatic linked to spotlight overlay with iTunes, Siri and web search results. Is it possible to disable this feature with a…
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Adding a custom field to Magento's subscription module

The newsletter subscription module in Magento has only one field (email) by default. After I add an extra field to the form (say country), how can I get the form data to show up in the Magento back-end and be sent as an email to a preset recipient?…
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Spacing between row in newsletter html table in Hotmail and Gmail

I try to create an newsletter. The display is perfect on web browser, perfect in thunderbird too... but in webmails like Gmail or Hotmail... I have spaces between the rows. Here is my code :
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Mailchimp - Signup Form - Using Tags

I've been using 'Groups' selection in my Mailchimp signup forms. But is it possible to use 'Tags' in the same way? I've got a MC signup form embedded on my site and wondering if I can replace the 'Groups' with 'Tags', so the new subscribers would be…
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iOS 10 Mail HTML not responding correctly

I am creating a newsletter and I discovered strange behavior. I have a table with 2 inside and I want them to be a block and 100% width but following happens: it also breaks some other parts of the mail. I tried already so much... every viewport,…
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Is there a site that emails out daily C# tips and tricks?

I subscribe to a newsletter from www.sqlservercentral.com that I like because each day I get an email digest with some interesting headlines & summaries of SQL Server articles that are already out there on the web. It's a great way to learn…
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how to generate unsubscribe link for newsletter?

I want to write a newsletter with php. but i have a question: how can i generate a code for unsubscribe. In fact i want a unique code for each subscriber. for example in 'http://net.tutsplus.com/' you can see something like…
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