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Issue The same email looks different in different email clients, and does not match what is shown in the Email Previewer.     Solution Different browsers and email clients render HTML and CSS differently. While there are standards set forth by W3C, there is room for flexibility. At a high level, it is expected for emails to look different, even within the same platform such as Outlook 2013 vs Outlook 2010. With that said, you can code against some of these anomalies by adding extra code in CSS to account for the differences. You should consult with an HTML/CSS designer to make these changes. In all likelihood, the issue is related to how Outlook(or any other email client) is rendering the email and reviewing the Outlook settings as well as email and template code should resolve any issues customers are experiencing as when we send test emails to both outlook and gmail both are generally rendered differently (gmail seems a bit fine though). FAQs Where should I start trying to determine whether this is a Marketo or Outlook issue? In most cases if the email is loading within another email client without issue then Outlook would be the best location to review. Is there a way for me to see if it is a template problem? Yes, does the issue occur when an email is created and sent with another template? What are the steps to troubleshoot? In general, to provide the most accurate troubleshooting steps, a bit more information will be helpful. I have provided a few general tips below which may be helpful. As a rule of thumb, Outlook sometimes requires custom coding to appear as it does in other email clients since they use their own word engine to render the html. If the images when they are downloaded are not displaying as expected, we would typically recommend reviewing any code in the email since Outlook uses its word engine to render html and additional code may be needed for Outlook specifically as a result. A developer may be required to implement any custom code required to display the emails as expected. You may consider reaching out to the Community to understand what other users have done to overcome similar obstacles. I have provided a few links below which may be relevant. Is there any reference Documentation ? https://nation.marketo.com/docs/DOC-4765-why-does-my-email-looks-different-on-various-version-of-the-same-platform-like-outlook HTML Email Display in Outlook Marketo emails don't render properly in MS Outlook app for iOS Re: Help - My Emails Look Terrible in Outlook 2016 Here are a few resources that may help with Outlook rendering issues: It’s Not You, It’s Outlook – The Complete Guide for Email Marketers http://www.verticalresponse.com/blog/its-not-you-its-outlook-the-complete-guide-for-email-marketers/ Gallery of Common Outlook Rendering Issues Gallery of Common Outlook Rendering Issues MICROSOFT OUTLOOK CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS http://labs.actionrocket.co/microsoft-outlook-conditional-statements Outlook 2007/2010/2013/2016 and Word HTML Outlook 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 365 and Word HTML - HowTo-Outlook 12 Techniques for Excellent Emails in Outlook.com How to Create Excellent Emails for Outlook.com A Guide to Rendering Differences in Microsoft Outlook Clients Outlook Email Rendering Issues and How to Solve Them - Litmus Surface Pro 3 and Outlook Email Rendering Redirecting
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Issue Email asset does not show which template it was built on and shows the word "none" instead of the name of the template that was used to create that asset. Solution Any edit directly to the HTML code of an email will break the connection between the email and the template. Changes made to the template will no longer flow down to the email. After making those change you will see a template name of None instead of the name of a template. When editing the HTML in the email, you will see this warning message: This is a article attached image
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  What is the Email API? What is the Email API used for? What is Email 2.0? Does the Email API Work on Email 2.0 Assets? Will the Email API Break when Enabling Email Experience 2.0? How Are 1.0 Assets Upgraded to 2.0 Assets? What to Do When an Email Was Accidentally Converted to Email 2.0 format?     What is the Email API? API stands for Application Programming Interface and the Email API allows an automated process to create and edit emails in Marketo. There are also other API calls that involve emails, such as Approve Snippet (assuming the Snippet is used in an Email) and Clone Program (assuming the Program contains Emails). There are also API calls to create and update Email Templates. Essentially, the API can do many things that you can also do through the Marketo user interface, but then in an automated fashion.     What is the Email API used for? There are many scenarios: an external system could create Emails in Marketo using data that lives outside of Marketo. A translation service provider could clone a master Email, translate it to many languages, then save them back into Marketo as localized Emails. A reporting system could extract Emails from Marketo to use in reports that are generated outside of Marketo. An external system could Clone a Program that contains Emails, then populate the Program Tokens and schedule the Email to be sent out at a specific time. There could be an external email template creation system that creates new Email templates in Marketo through the API.     What is Email 2.0? “Email Experience 2.0” is the new Marketo product feature with the enhanced email editor, documented here: https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Email+Editor+v2.0+Overview. It can be switched on in Admin > Email > Edit Email Editor Settings. All Emails and Email Templates also have a version number, either 1.0 (the old version) or 2.0 (the new version). If we refer to “Email 2.0 asset” we mean an email or email template in the new upgraded 2.0 format.     Does the Email API Work on Email 2.0 Assets? Yes.     Will the Email API Break when Enabling Email Experience 2.0? No. Enabling Email 2.0 will not automatically upgrade Emails or Email Templates to the new 2.0 format. The Email API can still create new Emails and Email Templates in the 1.0 format.  However – after enabling Email 2.0 – any Email or Email Template that is created or edited and approved through the Marketo User Interface will automatically be upgraded to the 2.0 format.     How Are 1.0 Assets Upgraded to 2.0 Assets? If you edit an “Approved" or “Approved with Draft” 1.0 Email with Email 2.0 enabled, the draft is converted to the 2.0 format. You can still discard the draft to go back to the approved 1.0 format. Once you approve the email and it becomes 2.0, the Email cannot be converted back to 1.0. If you edit a “Draft” 1.0 Email (never been approved), this will automatically be converted to 2.0 with no option to revert back to the 1.0 format. The same applies to Email Templates.     What to Do When an Email Was Accidentally Converted to Email 2.0 format? If an Email or Email Template was accidentally converted to the 2.0 format, you’d have to copy the asset contents to a text editor, disable Email 2.0, then create a new 1.0 asset using the content that you copied.
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Issue You have been receiving form submissions that appear to have bogus/nonsensical data in the fields, such as "kjsag@sm4.to" for email address, or "111-111-1111" for phone number, or in a Comment field other random nonsensical text.     Solution Currently, there are no default settings in Marketo that prohibit a form submission if the required fields are filled out. A great workaround for addressing these bogus form submissions in Marketo is to implement a 'honeypot' field on the form. To do this, you will need to create a custom Marketo field, string type, and name it something distinctive (such as "spam" or "honeypot"). After creating this field in Marketo Admin > Field Management, place this new field on the form as a hidden field. Real live end-users do not see hidden fields, but spam bots will see them and fill out all available fields. So now when we see form fills with this honeypot field "not empty," we know that it was a bot fillout.   Setting up the Honeypot Field Say that you have a Trigger Campaign that's having some issue with these spam/bogus form fills. In the flow of this campaign, you can add a flow step at the top: Remove from Flow, with a Choice.   Choice: If Honeypot field Is not empty, then remove from flow Default: do nothing   This way, the lead record is removed from the flow. You can also have other campaigns to handle these bogus form fills, such as a daily recurring batch to delete the record.   Other Options Another method of dealing with bot fillouts is to enable a reCaptcha. In fact, a very prolific Marketo user has written custom code that you feasibly could use to enable a reCaptcha on the form! Check this out: https://codepen.io/figureone/pen/meybqN?editors=0110    
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Issue You want to have one email address in the From field ( abc@test.com) a different email address in the Reply-To (all@test.com)? Solution Yes, you can use different email addresses in the From and Reply-To.  If the Reply-To is an email alias that sends to a group, you should confirm that email is working and able to receive email.  Please note: Automatic replies, such as out-of-office notifications will be sent to the From address, not the Reply-To.  Reply-To is only used when the person who received the email clicks the Reply button in their email client. Note :- The SMTP envelope sender typically appears as <uniqueidentifier>@*.mktomail.com. You will only receive responses of this nature if you have configured a branded sender for your subscription. While this serves as the correct destination for auto-responses, regrettably, it is frequently overlooked.    
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Issue Sometimes email addresses that are CC'd can have emails bounce. This doc describes what to expect in these scenarios. Solution Sending Emails To address is valid, cc address bounces   The email will be sent to the recipient but the cc'ed recipient will not receive it (since the address is invalid).   Nothing in the Marketo UI will communicate that the email to the cc'ed address was undeliverable.   To address bounces, the cc address is valid The email to the recipient will bounce normally.  The cc'ed recipient will still receive a copy of the email.   Nothing in the email sent to the cc'ed recipient will tell them that the To: the address was undeliverable.   To address is valid, cc address is unsubscribed The email to the recipient will deliver normally.  The unsubscribed cc address will not receive the email.   Nothing in the UI will reflect that the cc'ed recipient did not receive the email because of an unsubscribe setting.  The cc'ed address will not appear in the Send Email activity under the cc'ed attribute.   Email Delivered This will not include details of the cc'ed email addresses.  There is no log item in the UI to communicate that a CC email was delivered to the recipient or bounced.   Emails in the inbox The cc'ed person will be in the cc field of the email the lead receives.  The links in the email will be tracked for the person in the To: line.  If the cc'ed person clicks the links in the email, the 'Click Link' activity will be logged on the lead in the To: address and the cc'ed recipient will be cookied by Munchkin as the person in the To: address.
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Issue -Error editing image in email: “image URL does not exist” or “image URL cannot be found”   Environment -SSL not enabled on Marketo instance -Browser blocks unsecured content Solution Option 1 -Set up SSL for landing pages (Recommended!  SSL should be a baseline configuration for all landing pages and tracking domains). Add SSL to Your Landing Pages | Adobe Marketo Engage Option 2 (Not recommended!   Warning! This is a security risk.) -Allow browser to view unsecured content (can choose to turn this setting back off in the browser after viewing the content) This link below describes how to enable this content in Chrome. https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/target/using/experiences/vec/troubleshoot-composer/mixed-content.html This link below describes how to enable this content in Firefox. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mixed-content-blocking-firefox Option 3 -Try to use a different browser or try turning off all browser extensions. Root Cause This issue could be caused by SSL not being enabled. If the issue was sudden, and SSL is enabled, it is likely due to the browser needing an update. Check if there are any updates that need to be done.
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Issue When trying to edit an email you are receiving the error "Cannot Load Email" with out any other details. This is only when trying to edit the email, other functionalities like cloning still work.   Solution The reason you are receiving this error message is because the HTML of the email has been corrupted. Extract the HTML of the email by following the instructions here: https://docs.marketo.com/display/DOCS/Download+an+Email's+HTML Find the email and select it In the Email Actions Drop down click Download HTML Once the emails HTML is extracted you can check on the errors by pushing the HTML through a validator (https://validator.w3.org/) **If no Errors are evident please create a support ticket. If there are errors but you would still like to use the HTML in an email.   Create a new email, replace the HTML with the extracted content from the old email Append the HTML to resolve any errors that would corrupt the content Save and Approve Email for use in campaigns and programs   Root Cause Sometimes emails can become corrupted in Marketo. When this occurs unexpected behavior may occur. Typically emails become corrupted when a copy of a copy of a copy (etc.) occurs. With each clone of an asset there is a small chance that the asset could become corrupted, this becomes more and more likely as clones of clones are made. A solution to help prevent corruption would be to create a 'master' email that you can clone from each time instead of cloning from something else that was cloned. This same solution can be applied to other assets such as landing pages. 
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Issue You receive a page with the error "Cannot get email content" when visiting View as Webpage link in email. Solution The view as webpage link is tied to the original email asset when it was sent.   Occasionally customers will say they're receiving an error message when visiting the link like so: This is a article attached image   There are multiple reasons this can happen:   The email was a sample send of a draft of an email that no longer exists. It was discarded, or approved. The email asset was deleted You tried to use the view as webpage token from MSI. Root Cause This issue occurs when the visit webpage link is trying to refer to an email or email version that no longer exists either because it was deleted, replaced or approved.
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Issue Emails with valid email address get soft bounced with this error:  Local address contains control or whitespace. Solution This error means that the email has a space somewhere in the the From email address or there was a comma or extra character in the From line.  If you do not see a space inside the email address, check the end of the address to see if a space somehow got added at the end. The email send did not occur due to the error with the address. The emails will need to be resent once after the associated address is corrected with white spaces or extra characters. Also, there is the possibility that email address "text" contains Paragraph marks or hidden formatting symbols (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/f/formmark.htm) and instance users will required to have it reviewed and changed.        
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An email being filtered to a quarantine or bulk mail folder happens after the recipient mail server has accepted message.  Once an email has been accepted by a mail server, it is impossible to tell where it went or what happened to it.  Note that this is true of any mail sent by any system on the Internet.   Every mail server has configurable filters that determine how received mail will be handled.  The mail server administrator should be able to adjust those filters to ensure delivery of emails based on their business standards, or there may even be end-user-configurable controls that can accomplish the same thing.   If test mailings you are sending to yourself or your colleagues are being filtered to a quarantine or bulk mail folder, you should consider asking your email administrator to whitelist Marketo’s IP ranges.  They can be found here.   You can also improve your deliverability in general by setting up SPF and DKIM records, and branding your tracking links.
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Issue External tracked webpages are not showing up in "Visited Webpage" or "Filled Out Form" Smart List filter. Solution Munchkin tracked pages will not show up in Smart List filters until a known lead visits the webpage. To make sure the webpage shows up, do the following: Make sure that you have the Munchkin tracking code on those webpages. Use a test lead to visit the page and you may have to fill out a form or send an email to the lead to make sure that the lead is tracking on your machine. Check the test lead's activity history to make sure the visit is logged. Try entering the webpage in the filter again. Note :- Customizing Munchkin code can also be responsible for the same.
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Issue Leads were sent the email and clicked on a web page link on the email. However, the web page activities were not associated to these leads.   Solution Issue Resolution Check that the link clicked in the email has tracked link enabled If the web page activities are associated to other records (e.g. duplicates), then: Check who was 'cookied' on the web browser before the visit web page activity was recorded for the other records. This can be checked by looking at the web page activities recorded in the activity log. Check the User Agent details of the Click Link activity of the lead that was sent the email and compare it with the User Agent details of the Web Page Visit activity of the other record. The following tool can be used to help interpret the device details from the User Agent details: https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/parse/#parse-useragent In case of a non marketo landing page , check whether the munchkin is enabled correctly over the page without any customization. Reference Doc :- Munchkin Tracking
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Issue If your Smart Lists are processing slowly, you may be able to speed them up using Segmentations for exclusion lists.     Solution Many companies maintain email exclusion lists based on a number of criteria. In Marketo, these are often set up using Smart Lists that are then referenced in "Member of Smart List" filters. However, Smart Lists that reference other Smart Lists can be slow to resolve. Using a Segmentation for your exclusion lists instead of Smart Lists can help your campaigns and programs run more efficiently. Instructions for setting up Segmentations can be found here: Create a Segmentatio.  You can then use the Segmentation filters in your Smart List rather than the "Member of Smart List" filters: Use Segment Filters in a Smart List.
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Issue You are trying to identify your most active leads and set up a Smart List with an "Opened Email" or "Clicked Email" filter using "Email 'Is Any'" and a "Min number of Times" constraint, but are not sure if results are based on individual emails or 'all' emails in the 'Date of Activity' range.     Solution These filters read from the Activity log so the min number of times constraint is based on all emails for a given record For instance, consider a record that has received Email 1 twice and Email 2 once. To meet the minimum qualifying threshold of three, the record qualifies since it has a total of three email send activities (two from Email 1 and one from Email 2). The same criterion applies to click activities. Note: An open activity is recorded only once per email per record. For further details, you can read more here .    
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Issue You want to measure who clicks a specific link that uses a query string from a landing page, but when you try to use this logic in a smart campaign or smart list, it tells you the URL can’t be found, even though you can see the URL embedded on the landing page.   Solution If you are using the link "marketo.com/company/contact/?firstname=test", then you need to seperate the url into the link and the query string. The root domain (Link in the filter/trigger) will be marketo.com/company/contact/ and the query string (from Add Constraint dropdown) will be firstname=test. This will allow you to correctly track the links you are wanting. Make sure that you have the correct Web Page associated as a constraint as well. This is a article attached image This is a article attached image   For a better understanding of what query strings are, they are the parameters that are preceded by the "?" in the url. Detailed Doc :- on UTMs and Query string parameters :- Tracking Lead Sources Using UTM Parameters    
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Issue Issue Description Unable to create a subscription for static list.     Solution Issue Resolution While Subscriptions are not directly available for static lists and are only for Smart Lists and reports, you can create a Smart List that uses the filter 'Member of List' and then create the subscription on the Smart List instead.
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List imports can fail for a number of different reasons, so finding what that reason was is the first step to fixing what went wrong. When a list import fails to import leads, the Import Status dialog box will give you an error to tell you that some of the leads failed to import. The “Failed: X Leads” showing in the Import Status dialog box is a hyperlink.   This is a article attached image   When you click on the hyperlink, it will download an Excel file that carries the details of what caused the failure. The details for the import failure will change depending on the different types of issues, so watch for the explanations in the far right column for each lead on the list.   Invalid data for the field type: This is a article attached image   Invalid Email Address Warning: This is a article attached image   Lead belongs to a different Lead Partition: This is a article attached image
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Issue You added yourself to the Send Alert To portion of the List Import process and continue to receive unwanted Alert Emails every time a list is imported.         Solution During the next List Import process to the problem Static List in Marketo, you'll want to select the Edit Send Notification from the window that pops up in the top right section of your screen after the import process is started. Selecting the Edit Send Notification will cause a new window to open up that shows all of the email addresses who will be sent an Alert Email once the import completes.     If you no longer want to receive the Alert Emails for this static list going forward, deleteyour email address and click save.    
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My export is going to take a long time, do I have to stay logged in until it completes? Thankfully no, once you get your Import or Export started, you can log out, go grab some coffee or go home and the process will continue. Export: When you start the export process, you can close out of Marketo, later in the day or the following day you can log back into Marketo, find the same SmartList or StaticList you ran the export from, select it, click on List Actions and choose "Show Export Status". The Export dropdown will show up and assuming it is finished, the download link will be available. 1. Find and Click on the SmartLists or StaticList: 2. Click on List Actions then "Show Export Status": 3. The dropdown will pop open in the top right hand corner with the export status or the download link:   Import: Similarly, you can get an Import started, when you choose the CSV and begin the process the first step is for the file to get uploaded to our server where it will be further processed and imported into the database. Once the file is uploaded and the import process begins, you can close out of Marketo and come back to check on the status in the future instead of staying logged in the entire time. In a similar manner to checking export status, you can click the StaticList you are importing into as follows: 1. Find and Click the SmartList or StaticList you are Importing into: 2. Click on List Actions then "Show Import Status": 3. The dropdown will pop open in the top right hand corner.
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