Including subscriber-specific details like that can certainly help to jog people’s memory.

Re: SpamAssassin - don’t let it control your content too much. As long as your total message score is below 5, you should be just fine. A score of 0.4 doesn’t denote a serious content problem.

I just ran that through the SpamAssassin and it gave me a 0.4 spam rating! The reason:

"Body contains a lame excuse as to why spam was sent"

LOL!

It highlighted the phrase "You are receiving this email because"

So…

I removed that entire paragraph and got a zero rating.

My little message now reads:

==================================
———- *** Friendly Reminder *** ———
==================================

Thank you for being a valued member of the
[name of your site/business] mailing list!

Date you subscribed: {!signdate long}
…
…
…

etcetera

As you can see, I also altered the date variable to the long version to avoid any confusion with dates like 1/6/2008 — Is that the 6th of January or the 1st of June? Depends where you’re from, dunnit.

I also removed the line-break on each piece of data.

And finally, I’m not crazy about the "Friendly Reminder" title, which I just whacked in without thinking too hard about it.

Now that I have had time to consider it, it doesn’t QUITE sit right with me. It kind of has that "looking-over-the-bifocals", pursed-lips, school ma’am tone about it that I’m not a big fan off, y’know…

Any ideas?

And some EXCELLENT comments, to boot.

I took David’s sample from above (THANK YOU for sharing that with us!), adjusted it slightly and saved it in a text document on my desktop so I can easily cut and paste it into each new autoresponder message as I go.

Here’s my slightly modified version:

=============================
———- *** Friendly Reminder *** ———
=============================

Thank you for being a valued member of the
Absolutely Essential Guitar mailing list!

You are receiving this email because you
signed up for and confirmed your request
for information. Your details are as follows:

Date you subscribed:
{!signdate ss}

Name submitted:
{!name_fix}

Email Address submitted:
{!email}

Your IP address at that time:
{!add_ip}

============================
This email is ONLY sent to people who have
requested info and confirmed that request.
Seriously, I hate spam as much as you do!
============================

I could, of course, make it more generic and put it in my sig, but I thought it important to include the name of the actual website the person signed up from to serve as a very clear reminder to them.

If, however, I ran just one website, I would do both. That is, put the name of my business in the "template" above and then include it in the sig.

Anyway, thanks again to David. And, indeed, to Aweber for posting these articles in the first place, and to all the folks who take the time to share their advice.

Nice one!

I sent in a ticket.

Subscribers can request another copy of the confirm email (if, for example, they happened to delete it) by resubmitting their address in your signup form.

However, aside from them requesting another copy of that email, it can’t be resent.

For more on why this is, take a look at this blog post and discussion.

A question earlier didn’t get an answer and I have the same inquiry: How do you push another email out to the unverified? I’ve got a close-knit group signed up and know most of them well enough to call up. So I just want to say "You’ve got the first step handled, now open the Verify email and click the pretty link. :)"

Any way to do that?
Thanks for your help.

To answer your question,

"Is there something about them that makes you think you can’t put them in plain text emails?"

I thought that {!addurl} or similar text would show in the footer versus the actual translation.

Thanks for the update.