View Marketo Email

[Cory_Gabor1]

Hi Juli,

That would work as well.

[SanfordWhiteman]

FYI... using a variation of this technique for customizing Forward to Friend, you can create a sharing-safe version of View as Web Page.

In case it isn't clear, you must not share the standard View as Web Page, since all the links are tracked to the original recipient.

But by creating a specialized version, and adding a special query param like &sharesafe=true so the JS on the page knows about it, you can get a perfect rendering of the email HTML in the browser (not as rendered in one particular email client, but you already knew that!) with no danger of accidentally tracking your links.

The easiest JS, of course, being

  Array.from(document.links)
    .forEach(function(link){ 
      link.removeAttribute("href"); 
    }); 

A caveat, though, is that if an email+template is completely deleted from your instance, this special page won't work.

[SanfordWhiteman]

... also, the prob with the save-generic-HTML approaches is that they don't reflect dynamic content. When you have email that makes heavy use of Velocity -- a newsletter that parses an RSS feed in VTL and outputs relevant content only, for example -- you'd just have a big blank space where the content would be.

Springboarding off the View as Web Page allows you to show default content, for example if your archive recipient has subscribed to all blog categories then your archive would show all content. It wouldn't show the subset of content that an individual recipient saw, but at least it would show ​something!