Dressed-up Notification Mails
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This is an effort to modernise the notification emails that OpenStreetMap sends out. For some context see this diary entry
- 2022 update: Screenshots have been deleted, but the page remains as a record of the work taht was done
We need help:
- we need screenshots of the new emails as rendered by as many email clients as possible
- we need feedback on the design of the emails (in the comments to the diary entry)
Send in your screenshots, help us test for compatibility
If you use an email client which isn't listed below, or which is listed as "outdated", then you can help as follows:
- send yourself a copy of the redesigned mails -- two ways to do that:
- either using this little tool (quick, no signup, but there's only 3 canned emails)
- or sign up / log in to tomh.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org and perform some action that triggers an email (e.g. create a changeset then comment on it)
- take a screenshot of the email as it appears in your email client
- add it to the table
- either upload it to the wiki, and put a link to it in the relevant table cell
- or, just mail the screenshots to osm-screenshots(a)saintamh.org, I'll crop them, anonymise them and post them here
Latest screenshots
Email Client | Category | Changeset Comment (long) | Changeset Comment (short) | Friend notification | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gmail/Firefox (wide window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Gmail/Firefox (narrow window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Gmail/IE8 | Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Gmail/IE9 | Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Gmail/IE11 | Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Gmail/MSEdge | Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Gmail/Safari iOS | Web-based, Mobile | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Android Email | Mobile | missing | missing | missing | missing |
Android K9 Dark Theme |
Mobile | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Jolla Sailfish Haapajoki | Mobile | (screenshot removed) | - | - | renders as intended |
iOS Mail | Mobile | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
MacOS Mail.app (wide window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
MacOS Mail.app (narrow window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Thunderbird (wide window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Thunderbird (narrow window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Outlook 2013 (wide window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Outlook 2013 (narrow window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Windows Mail (wide window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Windows Mail (narrow window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
The Bat! (wide window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | excessive white space extra table border title not left-justified |
The Bat! (narrow window) |
Desktop | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | excessive white space extra table border title not left-justified overflows narrow window |
Yahoo! (wide, images disabled) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Yahoo! (narrow, images disabled) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | overflows narrow screen |
Yahoo! (wide, images enabled) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Yahoo! (narrow, images enabled) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | overflows narrow screen |
Outlook.com (a.k.a. Hotmail) (wide window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Outlook.com (a.k.a. Hotmail) (narrow window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Yandex/Firefox (wide window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Yandex/Firefox (narrow window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Mail.ru | Web-based | (screenshot removed) | missing | (screenshot removed) | outdated, needs retaken |
IMP/Horde | Web-based | missing | missing | missing | missing |
SquirrelMail/Chrome | Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Fastmail/Firefox (wide window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Fastmail/Firefox (narrow window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Roundcube/Firefox (wide window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |
Roundcube/Firefox (narrow window) |
Web-based | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | (screenshot removed) | renders as intended |