What is the best practice for sending a plain text version AND html version?

  • Resolved dkdesignhawaii

    (@dkdesignhawaii)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    Great plugin, it was very easy to set up. I am using Mailgun as my SMTP provider and messages are being delivered a-ok.

    I am trying to get the spam score to be as low as possible. According to the tool at mail-tester.com, I could shave an additional -1.105 points off my spam score if I provide a text version, because right now my messages are only sending text/html MIME parts.

    Does the plugin automatically convert an html email to plain text and provide that version to ESPs when sending? Or do I need to provide my own plain text version when invoking the wp_mail function? If so, how do I do that in a way that your plugin expects? For example, do I include a “text:” parameter in my header array or something?

    Please advise when you can, and sorry if this has already been answered. I could not get a definitive answer by reading the previous posts. Thanks for doing a great job on this plugin.

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  • Thread Starter dkdesignhawaii

    (@dkdesignhawaii)

    Sorry for the bump, hoping for any thoughts you might have?

    Hi dkdesignhawaii,

    WP Mail SMTP will simply help to process the emails that your site is already sending — it doesn’t alter the format.

    To change the email format, you’ll need to go back to the source of the email (the plugin, etc).

    I hope this helps!

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