Live view links
Every MailInApp email has a live view: the same email rendered as a hosted web page, fully interactive, with zero JavaScript required. It is the universal fallback tier — whatever a recipient's inbox can't render, one tap opens the real thing in their browser.
Where live view appears
- Fallback CTAs — static-tier blocks link to the live view: "Vote", "See the collection", "Open the form" all land on the interactive version of that email.
- "View in browser" — the classic escape hatch, powered by the same page.
- Studio preview — the Live view ↗ button in the studio toolbar opens your project's live view, so you preview exactly what recipients get.
Recipients never need a MailInApp account, an app, or a login — the link simply works.
Security model
Live view links are signed capability URLs:
- Each link carries a signed token scoped to one email project — and, when the email is personalized, to one recipient row, so each recipient sees their own personalized page.
- Links minted from the studio are valid for 30 days; tampering with the token invalidates it.
- Live view pages send no referrer information and are marked
noindex, so tokens don't leak through analytics or search engines.
Treat a personalized live view link like the email itself: anyone the recipient forwards it to can see that email's content.
Scanner-proof interaction recording
Corporate security gateways and link scanners (Outlook SafeLinks and similar) prefetch every link in an email — which would corrupt your poll results if a bare click were enough to record a vote. MailInApp is built so that a GET request never records an interaction:
- Link-based actions from the email land on a lightweight confirmation step; the interaction is recorded only on the recipient's explicit confirming action.
- Interactions on the live view itself are recorded through form posts, which scanners don't trigger.
The result: your analytics reflect humans, not security bots. More in Interactions & analytics.