The standard email gateway for sending emails is Amazon Simple Email Service

If your domain has configured an SPF record you will need to include the domain amazonses.com

For example:- 

"v=spf1 include:amazonses.com -all"

How to build/edit template

Navigate to Emails > Templates

 Select the template to edit or create new one.

Fetch data from the database

Data from the system can be added to the template subject or body using field tokens.

The token format is ${object.field}

Object can be: recipient, sender, target or globals.

Use the recipient object to fetch data from the current recipient you send the email to.

Use the sender object to fetch data from the current sender of this email.

Use the target object to fetch data from the object

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be used to style your emails; create professional branding, specific marketing and event styling

You can add a CSS to every email / for an individual user email account / email template / or specific email.

1. System wide email CSS - Once you add a system wide email CSS all new emails will use this style.

Go to : Admin > Setting > select tab named 'Email' and set your CSS

With this example the email editor for all the users would look like the below.

2. User account email CSS - Your

 The following field validations have been added.

^[A-Z0-9._%+\-#'&]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|edu|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|asia|jobs|museum)$

There is an option "embed remote images" in the "Advanced" tab, if turned on I'll fetch the image and then embed the image in the email.

${unsubscribe.Click Here} will add the link to unsubscribe the newsletter. "Click Here" is the link text

Remember the most important goal with emails is that they are opened 

Whether you are composing an email to one person or designing an email campaign to 1000's of recipients using the Email module, you should follow a few simple pointers to increase your Open and Read statistics;

• Your recipients are more likely to open an email when they recognise the sender, so make sure your sender address clearly identifies where you are from.
• A clear and honest subject line will illicit a better initial response, also builds trust over time that the recipients

You may have seen email warnings about "variable is deprecated". The system has been updated to warn if an email variable or bit of code which is 'deprecated' or out of date. (I had to look up what that meant! - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation).

What do you do?

You can click Continue to send the emails and it will be fine.

To stop seeing the warning we just need you to update your email template to the new formats for email variables. For example $recipient.firstname,Sir/Madam$ it is

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