2019/indieemail

 IndieEmail: Messages and Newsletters  was a session at IndieWeb Summit 2019.

Notes archived from https://etherpad.indieweb.org/indieemail

IndieWebCamp PDX 2019 Session: #IndieEmail Date and Time: 2019-06-29 16:10

Participants

 * Jared White (session facilitator)
 * John Karabaic
 * Cheryl Crowe

Topics

 * What to do with incoming messages (aka a Contact form)?
 * Can you POSSE your email newsletter?
 * What's the future of email and the IndieWeb?

Getting webmentions to work for email

 * One of the strategies is similar to what salesforce does for "Email to Salesforce"
 * On the contact form, indicate if communication is private or can be syndicated.
 * Websites can have associated maildrops that they check for syndicated content.
 * When an email is sent, it gets copied to a drop box that the site checks to syndicate the content to the website.
 * Perhaps the checkbox adds a header that the website respects when deciding whether to forward the content to the drop

Sending out newsletters
Solutions:
 * CampaignMonitor
 * MailChimp

You can publish an issue as a simple HTML template on your own website. and then use a script or something to send that URL to a service like MailChimp. That way your email newsletter content isnt stuck in a silo (MailChimp, etc.)
 * Example: https://jaredwhite.com/newsletters/

The future... don't use AMP for Gmail :-)


 * Cheryl: Put your most important content at the top of the email issue, people won't scroll through a long message