Comments on: Using Apple Mail’s Stationery with MailChimp

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:22:07 +0000

I don’t think it is supported anymore. I cannot make any template work. I thought it may be lion so I used a snow leopard machine, but to no avail.

By: gene

gene — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:14:52 +0000

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so i know this post is a couple years old, but is this feature dead as far as Mail.app is concerned? i haven’t had any luck with it.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:59:57 +0000

Hosted images is the most reliable way to send HTML email en masse. We currently do not support embedded images inside emails.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:20:35 +0000

This is a nice feature. But for us, having the email sent with embedded images and not “hosted” would also be a nice feature. Is this possible with Mail Chimp?

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:13:41 +0000

I am still having this issue.

As I only set up Mail Chimp to manage my mom’s business contacts, I don’t want to be the one composing all of her campaigns. She is completely computer illiterate and using Apple Mail would make things a lot easier for her. She doesn’t (and can’t) want to use the Mail Chimp editor – it is way too confusing for her.

I was hoping she would be able to use the Apple Mail to compose all of her campaigns and then all I’d have to do is login to MailChimp and click “Send” on the campaign. But, for some reason, even as BenB mentioned, Apple Mail only works for about 1/2 of the Apple Mail composed message.

Any idea on when this issue might be fixed? I’ll personally send someone a gift via PayPal if this gets fixed soon – I need to get mom off my back! lol

Seeing how I only use Mac and mom uses both (poorly) are there any other email clients she could install on either a PC or Mac that actually has stationery that is compatible with MailChimp? I tried Thunderbird but the stationery plugin seems all too confusing and doesn’t even come with any templates.

Thanks for any advice / help!

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By: BenB

BenB — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:17:39 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Rich, because the image addresses seem to be things like cid:42D9D2ED-C6CF-45F6-A797-299B30CF3B27/top.jpg

Why is it MailChimp isn’t using global URLs for these addresses?

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:09:57 +0000

Ben,

Thanks so much for the speedy reply! I’ll be sure to check back regularly to see any future updates.

Rich

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:12:52 +0000

Apple Mail seems to have changed since this blog post was written. We’re still investigating. Sorry!

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:58:57 +0000

I cant get apple mail to work with this. I can get the email into MailChimp but only about half of the images actually load when previiewing and sending in MailChimp…any idea why this might be happening? When I click on the missing image in the MailChimp preview to open the image in a new frame I get a message saying that Mac OS X doesn’t support web addresses that begin with CID (the link to the images from the Apple Mail program mostly all begin with CID and not to the MailChimp gallery). How does this get fixed?

Thank you

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:12:37 +0000

I was hoping the same myself, but Mac’s pages are coded in a way that’s slightly non-standard, so MailChimp can’t (reliably) re-interpret them for HTML email.