Sending HTML Email

[eluser]Chris Newton[/eluser]
You may have logic on your side, but I have white papers, deliverability reports, and experience that prove otherwise... at least when averaged across the email industry as a whole. Agreed, in limited testing, one or another provider may fall to either side, but across the great gamut of web & application based email, I know where the line lies. I work regularly with whitelisting & black listing agencies at a variety of companies like AOL, Verizon, Yahoo, etc. and can tell you, embedded images increase the risk of automatic blockage when sending bulk email (anything over 100 at a time.) As you say, there are many factors that ultimately inform the spam issue, but embedded images is not an industry best-practice, and is more suited when sending image based signatures, or personal email. YMMV, so I'll leave it at that.