Email support group #4
Email marketing Q&A: Outlook rendering, email length & list deliverability
Outlook still runs on Word's rendering engine. Nobody agrees on how long an email should be. And your list might be bouncing more than it should. This is a real, unscripted Q&A with the Really Good Emails team — no pre-set agenda, just whatever's actually on people's minds about email marketing and design.
Feb 18th, 2026
The questions that actually come up every month
Designing for Outlook still means making peace with rectangles — no rounded corners without extra code, and animated GIFs that only ever show their first frame. Meanwhile, "how long should this email be" has no universal answer, and a shaky list can quietly tank your deliverability without you noticing. We pulled these straight from the questions people actually asked.
In this recorded session, we cover:
- Why Outlook renders emails differently, and which design principles still work there anyway
- How to make long emails scannable instead of just shorter
- Why live text still beats AI-readable images for accessibility and reach
- Whether landing in Gmail's Promotions tab is actually a problem worth fixing
- How to spot list issues before they turn into hard bounces
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