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Mountain/\Ash requested to merge oss-contributions/webapp:2435-refresh-email-notifications into develop May 07, 2020

much less code
dark mode
website style cues
small-screen UI improvements
added utm_source tracking so referrals can be tracked better
added more links back to service (on images, headings & footer)
removed Gitter apps promotion

Requires CSS Inliner feature of Mailchimp/Mandrillapp to continue to be enabled

Closes #2435 (closed)

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Testing strategy

node build-scripts/mandrill-templates/test.js
Copy the contents of build-scripts/mandrill-templates/unread-notification.out.html (or preview directly in a browser)
Paste the contents into Mailchimps CSS Inliner Tool
Create a script using nodemailer to send the converted HTML to a variety of email addresses to test in a variety of email clients on various devices (inc webmail) and using various email services (eg. Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Outlook Live/Hotmail, iCloud and plain old POP3/IMAP)

Edited Jun 11, 2020 by Mountain/\Ash