Underused Mail Setting Retirement
As we continuously modernize our email delivery infrastructure, we have sunset some sparsely used features in order to improve efficiency.
| Mail Setting | Recommended Action |
|---|---|
| Plain Content is an option within SendGrid Mail Settings that disables the automatic conversion of plain text emails to HTML. | If you would like to maintain open and click tracking, you must send HTML. Otherwise, you can continue sending plain text emails without open and click tracking. |
| Gravatar third party integration. | Due to low adoption among customers we decided to sunset this feature. |
| Sections is a form of mail merge where sections of an email content can be customized by recipient. | We recommend using Twilio SendGrid transactional templates with handlebars syntax through our v3 API. |
| BCC automatically BCCs an email address for every email sent. | We recommend identifying bcc as a personalization in each API call. |
| Spam Checker is an option within SendGrid Mail Settings that checks outbound messages for spam content. | We recommend using Email Testing to maximize your deliverability. |
| Drop feature is a test feature that goes through the processing of mail, but just drops it without delivering in the end. | We have a Sandbox Mode feature which allows you to send a test email to ensure that your request body is formatted correctly without delivering the email to any of your recipients. |
| Sendwithus third party Integration | We recommend using Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns. | DomainKey is an old feature for signing emails which has been deprecated by email industry. | Users should utilize DKIM which is the new standard for signing emails. |
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