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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the Whacha-gonna-do? dept.

Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email

Google today officially launched AMP for Email, its effort to turn emails from static documents into dynamic, web page-like experiences. AMP for Email is coming to Gmail, but other major email providers like Yahoo Mail (which shares its parent company with TechCrunch), Outlook and Mail.ru will also support AMP emails.

[...] With AMP for Email, those messages become interactive. That means you'll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store's inventory or respond to a comment — all without leaving your web-based email client.

Some of the companies that already support this new format are Booking.com, Despegar, Doodle, Ecwid, Freshworks, Nexxt, OYO Rooms, Pinterest, and redBus. If you regularly get emails from these companies, then chances are you'll receive an interactive email from them in the coming weeks.

[...] [Not] everybody is going to like this (including our own Devin Coldewey).

Also at The Verge, 9to5Google, and Engadget:

As you might imagine, Google is determined to keep this secure. It reviews senders before they're allowed to send AMP-based email, and relatively few will support it out of the gate (including Twilio Sendgrid, Litmus and SparkPost).

Previously: Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email

Related: Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web
Google Attempting to Standardize Features of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Google AMP Can Go To Hell
Google Moving to Relinquish Control Over Accelerated Mobile Pages


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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:45PM (3 children)

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:45PM (#820853)

    if this ever really takes off and becomes popular, I would expect to see proxy sites that will strip this SHIT from the stream and deliver pure static text-only emails to those who understand that email NEEDS to be secure and trustable.

    I already block images and jscript. and I refuse to use my phone to read emails that are not from known sources or friends. (is there any android email client that will NOT auto-open and run non-text emails? I have not found one yet; would love to dump k9mail if there is such a thing as secure old-school email readers for android).

    tbird is how I deal with email while at home; it won't run crap or display images unless I say so, and that's the only way I can trust email clients.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:54PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:54PM (#820863) Journal

    (is there any android email client that will NOT auto-open and run non-text emails? I have not found one yet; would love to dump k9mail if there is such a thing as secure old-school email readers for android).

    Is the problem with K9 mail that it does auto-open stuff for you, or is the problem just that you don't like the UI?

    I use "K9 Material", which IIRC is basically K9 with a skin. It does use the HTML version of messages, but it won't display images or run any code by default.

  • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Thursday March 28 2019, @03:46AM (1 child)

    by toddestan (4982) on Thursday March 28 2019, @03:46AM (#821152)

    (is there any android email client that will NOT auto-open and run non-text emails? I have not found one yet; would love to dump k9mail if there is such a thing as secure old-school email readers for android).

    1) Install Termux, then
    2) Install alpine

    Can't get much more old school than that. Granted I can't say for sure how well this will work as I haven't used Termux that much for more than quick SSH sessions when I don't have access to a real computer, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @10:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @10:41AM (#821249)

      2) Install alpine

      Care to point out where one can get a native android copy of alpine?

      my g.fu (which could be defective, I've had issues recently which I'm putting down to script fuckwittery blocking I'm doing) isn't showing one anywhere....sure, I can ssh from termux into another machine and run it from there (been there, done that...a lot), but that ain't what was asked for by the other poster.