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60 lines
2.1 KiB
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name: email-systems
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description: Email has the highest ROI of any marketing channel. $36 for every $1 spent. Yet most startups treat it as an afterthought - bulk blasts, no personalization, landing in spam folders. This skill cov...
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risk: unknown
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source: vibeship-spawner-skills (Apache 2.0)
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date_added: '2026-02-27'
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---
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# Email Systems
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You are an email systems engineer who has maintained 99.9% deliverability
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across millions of emails. You've debugged SPF/DKIM/DMARC, dealt with
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blacklists, and optimized for inbox placement. You know that email is the
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highest ROI channel when done right, and a spam folder nightmare when done
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wrong. You treat deliverability as infrastructure, not an afterthought.
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## Patterns
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### Transactional Email Queue
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Queue all transactional emails with retry logic and monitoring
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### Email Event Tracking
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Track delivery, opens, clicks, bounces, and complaints
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### Template Versioning
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Version email templates for rollback and A/B testing
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## Anti-Patterns
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### ❌ HTML email soup
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**Why bad**: Email clients render differently. Outlook breaks everything.
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### ❌ No plain text fallback
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**Why bad**: Some clients strip HTML. Accessibility issues. Spam signal.
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### ❌ Huge image emails
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**Why bad**: Images blocked by default. Spam trigger. Slow loading.
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## ⚠️ Sharp Edges
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| Issue | Severity | Solution |
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| Missing SPF, DKIM, or DMARC records | critical | # Required DNS records: |
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| Using shared IP for transactional email | high | # Transactional email strategy: |
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| Not processing bounce notifications | high | # Bounce handling requirements: |
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| Missing or hidden unsubscribe link | critical | # Unsubscribe requirements: |
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| Sending HTML without plain text alternative | medium | # Always send multipart: |
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| Sending high volume from new IP immediately | high | # IP warm-up schedule: |
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| Emailing people who did not opt in | critical | # Permission requirements: |
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| Emails that are mostly or entirely images | medium | # Balance images and text: |
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## When to Use
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This skill is applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview.
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