A method of email administration including receiving in a transcoding gateway from a client device one or more email display status attributes describing one or more email display capability statuses for a domain, receiving in the transcoding gateway from a sender an email display capability status request for the domain, in which the capability status request includes a domain identification, finding, in dependence upon the domain identification, at least one email display capability status record for the domain, in which the email display capability status record for the domain includes at least one of the email display capability status attributes, and sending at least one of the email display capability status attributes to the sender.