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Inbox rendering inbox-rendering
About inbox rendering about-inbox-rendering
Before hitting the Send button, make sure that your message will be displayed to the recipients in an optimal way on a variety of web clients, web mails and devices.
To allow this, Adobe Campaign leverages the Litmus web-based email testing solution to capture the renderings and make them available in a dedicated report. This enables you to preview the sent message in the different contexts in which it may be received and check the compatibility in major desktops and applications.
Litmus is a feature-rich email validation and previewing application. It allows email content creators to preview their message content in over 70 email renderers, such as the Gmail inbox or the Apple Mail client.
The mobile, messaging and webmail clients available for Inbox rendering in Adobe Campaign are listed on the Litmus website (click View all email clients).
Activating Inbox rendering activating-inbox-rendering
For hosted and hybrid clients, Inbox rendering is configured on your instance by Adobe technical support and consultants. For more information, contact your Adobe Account executive.
For on-premise installations, follow the steps below to configure Inbox rendering.
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Install the Inbox rendering (IR) package via the Tools > Advanced > Import package menu. For more on this, see Installing Campaign Classic standard packages.
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Configure an external account of the HTTP type via the Administration > Platform > External Accounts node. For more on this, see Creating an external account.
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Set the external account parameters as follows:
- Label: Deliverability server info
- Internal name: deliverabilityInstance
- Type: HTTP
- Server: https://deliverability-app.neolane.net/deliverability
- Encryption: None
- Check the Enabled option.
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Go to the Administration > Platform > Options node. Search for the DmRendering_cuid option and contact support to get your delivery reports identifier that needs to be copied to the Value (text) field.
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Edit the serverConf.xml file to allow a call to the Litmus server. Add the following line to the
<urlPermission>section:code language-none <url dnsSuffix="deliverability-app.neolane.net" urlRegEx="https://.*"/> -
Reload the configuration using the following command:
code language-none nlserver config -reload
About Litmus tokens about-litmus-tokens
As Litmus is a third-party service, it works on a credit-per-usage model. Each time a user calls on the Litmus functionality, credit is deducted.
In Adobe Campaign, the credit corresponds to the number of available renderings (known as tokens).
Each time you use the Inbox rendering feature in a delivery, each rendering generated decreases your available tokens by one.
- Each time the Inbox rendering report is generated, one token per messaging client is deducted: one token for the Outlook 2000 rendering, one for the Outlook 2010 rendering, one for the Apple Mail 9 rendering, and so on.
- For the same delivery, if you generate the Inbox rendering again, the number of available tokens is again decreased by the number of generated renderings.
The number of remaining available tokens is displayed in the General summary of the Inbox rendering report.
Typically, the Inbox rendering feature is used to test the HTML framework of a newly designed email. Each rendering requires approximately up to 70 tokens (depending on the number of environments generally tested on). However, in some cases you may require multiple inbox rendering reports to fully test your delivery. It could therefore take more tokens to complete several checks.
Accessing the inbox rendering report accessing-the-inbox-rendering-report
Once you have created your email delivery and defined its content as well as the targeted population, follow the steps below.
For more on creating, designing and targeting a delivery, refer to this section.
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On the top bar of the delivery, click the Inbox rendering button.
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Select Analyze to start the capture process.
A proof is sent. The rendering thumbnails can be accessed in that proof a few minutes after sending the emails. For more on sending proofs, refer to this section.
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After being sent, the proof appears in the delivery list. Double-click it.
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Go to the Inbox Rendering tab of the proof.
The Inbox rendering report is displayed.
Inbox rendering report inbox-rendering-report
This report displays the inbox renderings as they appear to the recipient. The renderings can differ based upon how the recipient opens the email delivery: in a browser, on a mobile device, or via an email application.
The General summary presents the number of messages received, unwanted (spam), not received, or pending reception, as a list and through a graphical color-coded representation.
Hover over the chart to display the details for each color.
The body of the report is divided into three parts: Mobile, Messaging clients, and Webmails. Scroll down the report to display all the renderings grouped into these three categories.
To get the details for each report, click the corresponding card. The rendering is displayed for the reception method selected.
