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Thursday, 1 PM. Promotions tab. That's where Gmail put the welcome email for Rotwise.io , the code scanner I launched last week. Logo, brand colours, one card, one button. A whole morning of work. The welcome email is the one email your user asked for thirty seconds ago. If it lands in a tab they open twice a year, nothing after it gets read either. And you won't see it fail. Delivered says delivered. SPF, DKIM and DMARC passed on every send. So I stripped it, one layer at a time. Same text, same sender, two Gmail inboxes, one that had never seen my domain. - Designed card with logo and dark-mode CSS: Promotions - Same card, no preheader, no footer: Promotions - Same card rebuilt with divs, no tables, no web font: Promotions - Text only, inline fonts and colours, no images: Promotions - Same, with one small logo: Promotions - Bare HTML, five paragraphs, one link: Primary. Both inboxes. Any styling at all was enough. The moment it looked like a company made it, Gmail treated it like a company made it. I kept the plain one. Second find, worse. Amazon SES had "engagement tracking" on by default. Every link in every email, including the sign-in link, was rewritten through awstrack.me , which uBlock blocks. Anyone with an ad blocker couldn't log in, and none of them would have told me. One attribute on the link (ses:no-track) fixes it. Two inboxes, one day, a domain four days old. Not a study. It takes twenty minutes to check yours: send your welcome email to a Gmail account that has never heard of you, then read the source of what arrived. Has anyone found a styled transactional email that reliably lands in Primary from a young domain?   submitted by   /u/AhelFliz [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 20:05:12