The Litmus French! How not to qualify in this way Getinbox ? Indeed, the tool developed by Sarbacane uses the principle of the American platform, i.e. to preview your emailings in different email clients and webmails.
On the other hand, the main interest of the tool is indeed that it was developed by a French company, with the presence of the main French webmails, i.e. The post office, Orange and SFR.
We also find in the platform the three American webmails most used in France, namely Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo!
On the email client side, there are several versions of Outlook (2003, 2007 and 2010), Outlook Express 6, Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail and ThunderBird.
Other email and webmail clients should be made available soon.
If Getinbox is developed by the Sarbacane teams, the tool is completely independent from the router. Indeed, it can be used from any email sending platform.
Mathieu Tarnus, Managing Director of Sarbacane Software:
"We are proud to have developed an in-house preview tool like Getinbox. Thus, we offer French ISPs that are among the most used webmails by French people. All communicators and emailing professionals who are looking for a simple tool to check the display of their email campaign content can use Getinbox."
If we are to believe some clues found on the left and right during the platform test (see below), it seems that an API and a store are planned for the future, but for the moment the links do not work.
Regarding the price, a credit system exists (1 credit = 1 test in an email or webmail client). But the price of these credits is not yet available at the time of writing this article.
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The Getinbox test
I had the opportunity to receive a preview access, and at first glance the interface is extremely well worked, everything seems to be in the right place.
The operation is simple, three options are available to test your emails:
- Copy and paste HTML code directly into the platform;
- Download an .eml or .html file;
- Sending via an email address generated by the platform.
However, it seems that in this last option the email address is different each time. It is therefore impossible, as in Litmus, to permanently add the test email address in your sending platform. Probably an improvement to be expected!
A feature that I find interesting is the management of several versions in the same test. This can be useful to compare successive improvements of your campaign.
What can also be said is that the platform is very fast! In a few seconds the first results are displayed. Let's hope that this speed will not disappear when the number of users increases.
Another missing option is that it is impossible to preview modes with and without images, only one screenshot is available per email client. On the other hand, an interesting feature is the one that allows you to mark the captures as validated or problematic.
So we have an email preview platform that is still young, but full of promise. But whatever happens, Getinbox will quickly become a must-have given the lack of competition on this market in France!
