Note: I was able to work around the lack of a specified, not-auto-generated text-only version by sticking a DIV with 'display: none' at the very top of message (after the BODY tag, before the [[TrackingImage]] thing) and filling said div with text (broken up by P tags) to keep it all from wrapping together into one giant paragraph).   Text-only users will see a nicely formated text at the top, followed by a number of blank lines (also inserted into the invisible DIV), followed by a pile of gibberish (the IMG links from my HTML version) that can't be hidden.   So it's hardly ideal, or a proper substitute for an actual Text-Only editor version and editor (and ability to Preview same!), at least I can send this month's newsletter... so yay. ... View more

Just got "strongly suggested" that I switch over to the new Custom HTML Code editor, as the one I've been using goes away in a week.   Previously, I complained upon deaf ears that they took away the "preview text" feature. Now they've doubled down on that by taking away the ability to enter a text version that you can't preview!   Presumably, it auto-generates a text-only version by magically extracting what it thinks is the plain text from my HTML. Which wouldn't be good in the first place ("Did it do it correctly? How would I know, there's no easy way to see what it's doing."), and is a particular problem because my HTML doesn't have any text to display! Yes, I know that deliberate, pixel-perfect design is frowned upon these days, but I have my reasons.   ... View more

I roll my own email using the Advanced Editor, and thus my text-formatted messages aren't auto-generated from text I type into the 2nd or 3rd gen editors. Previously, up until about 2 months ago, I could send myself a test email of my campaigns both in HTML and Text formats, as a sanity check.   Now, there's apparently no way to see what the Text message will look like, either in the Preview dialog itself, or by sending a text-format email to myself. This is problematic.   ... View more