If you’ve ever run an inbox inspection, you may have found yourself wondering which email clients to focus your testing on. Does it matter if a font looks a little wonky in AOL Mail if 98% of your list uses Outlook 2007?
Good news. In v5.9, we started taking your list’s user-agent data and displaying it next to each email app in the “Run Inbox Inspection” dialog:
So now I know I should prioritize my testing on Outlook, Gmail and Thunderbird (I’ll tell you why I skipped iPhone in a sec)…
We first launched our Inbox Inspector tool in May 2007. It was pretty revolutionary at the time (ahem, imho) to be offering a “one-click” testing service like this to the masses. Unfortunately, it also seemed fairly expensive to most people. $39 for three tests seemed high (still, much cheaper than an embarrassing email design mistake). Over the years, we kept reducing its price, eventually whittling it down to under $5 per test.
But we’re pretty excited to announce that we’re now making Inbox Inspections totally free…
As of today, MailChimp’s Inbox Inspector (powered by Return Path) has added support for four new mobile environments; iPhone, Windows Mobile 6.5, Nokia/Symbian and Blackberry Curve. Inbox Inspector makes it one-click easy for you to generate screenshots showing how your email will render in the major desktop, web-based and mobile email apps.
See how your campaign will look on Nokia's N96 Series phone and more.
Both BOL and Terra have been added to Inbox Inspector. If you or your clients send email campaigns to the Latin American market, you’re gonna like this.
BOL is one of the largest Brazilian ISPs and Terra is the leading ISP is most of the other Latin American countries.
You can see a couple screenshots from our test campaign after the jump.
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