A more calm Review Mode, SVG conversion, smarter copy and paste, and more

We’ve made another batch of improvements to the email builder — some you’ll notice as you write, and some that you won't.

These updates are all about making your emails work better for everyone who receives them.

A calmer Review Mode

Review Mode is still watching over your email as you write, but it’s now more tucked away when you’re not in Review Mode itself.

• Outside of Review Mode, issues are marked with an underline only — we no longer outline the whole block on elements with an issue. The popup is a simpler, minimal view that just shows you actionable suggestions.
• A new check will let you know if you’ve left an image block in your email without actually selecting an image.
• Review Mode now alerts you if you’ve used relative URLs (like /about). These won’t work in emails, because recipients don’t share your website’s context — links need to be full addresses.
• Issues you’ve dismissed now persist alongside the content of your email, so you don’t have to dismiss the same things again every time you come back.
• Review Mode now pulls words from your project name, address, and all sender profile names into the spellcheck dictionary. You shouldn’t have to keep dismissing “spelling” errors on your own brand name, or place names in your business address.

SVGs now convert automatically

We now convert SVGs to PNGs behind the scenes. Many email clients don’t support SVG, so this means your logos and illustrations actually show up.

This even works for emails you’ve already sent. If a recipient opens an older campaign that contained an SVG, they’ll now get a PNG (or similar) rather than a format their client can’t display.

Paste that behaves as you’d expect

• Copying and pasting Markdown into the email builder now converts into formatted text, as you’d expect.
• If you paste HTML specifically from VS Code, we detect that it’s HTML and interpret it as actual HTML in the email builder — handy when you’re copying a snippet of markup rather than already-formatted content.

Sensible spacing for new columns

Newly created columns — whether from the “+” menu, the slash command, or by dragging something beside something else — now get column spacing set by default. We’d seen a few too many emails with text and columns pressed right up against an image, so this is a more sensible starting point.

Thank you for your feedback — it’s what drives us to make changes every day to ensure EcoSend continually improves around your needs. Please keep it coming!