I made some inline styling changes on a Transactional Emails template. My changes are visible when I preview the Transactional emails template. but the problem is when I send a test email to a gmail I still get an old version of the Transactional email template. My new changes don't show up. I cleared the cache and I did Reindexing. but my My new Transactional email template doesn't show up.
Is there a step that i'm missing? or Is this problem related to Magento or the Server?
Make sure the emails you've edited are choosen under System > Configuration > Sales > Sales Emails > [type of email] > [type of email] Email Template / [type of email] for guests
Other emails like the one for welcoming a new user are spread out over the System > Configuration, for example under Customer Configuration > Create New Account Options. You'll have to locate the email templates you have updated.
By default all these dropdowns are on [...] (Default Template From Locale), select your modifications name from the dropdown
Have you assigned these templates in the system configuration for the store you're testing?
After creating a transaction email template you need to tell the store to use this for the relevant email.
So for example the New customer email is assigned in System Configuration -> Customers -> Customer Configuration -> Default Welcome Email
Inline css not works in gmail.
Gmail only supports <style> in the <head>.
Gmail does support embedded styles (<style>). However, embedded styles are only supported in the head of your HTML document.
so if you added css in style in the head section it will not work.
System > Transactional Emailsor to the email files inapp/locale/[language]_[country]/template/email/...?