A complete newsletter ships with two versions: HTML (visual) and plain text. Mailpro auto-generates the text version — and you can customise it.

Pro tip: a well-written plain text version boosts your sender score. ISPs treat emails without one as suspicious.

Why a plain text version?

  • Deliverability: Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook prefer multipart emails (HTML + text)
  • Accessibility: essential for screen readers and text-only clients
  • Fallback: if HTML fails to render, the reader sees your text
  • Apple Watch / SMS-to-email: only text is read

How Mailpro handles it

  1. Build your HTML newsletter as usual
  2. Mailpro auto-extracts the text version
  3. You can customise it in the "Text version" tab
  4. At send time, both versions ship together

Plain text best practices

DoAvoid
Lines < 70 charsText with no line breaks
Full URLs in plain textShortened links
Sections split with ---A wall of text
Unsubscribe URL visibleHidden or buried link

More on the deliverability hub.

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