The reason I'm writing this email is to [closed]

Question

I saw the following sentence at the start of an e-mail. While it is grammatical, I'd like know if it is natural.

Dear Mr. Smith:

The reason I'm writing this e-mail is to inform you of a change to our August schedule.

Answer 1

For a formal letter, you would normally begin this way:

I write to inform you of a change to our August schedule.

An email is really no different - although many people adopt a more informal approach to sending emails, you have begun with the proper address "Dear Mr Smith", so it seems that you should follow the conventions of a letter.

In informal correspondence people tend to "get to the point". "The reason I am writing this email" is pretty superfluous - of course it's an email, it came into my inbox.

Informally, you are more likely to see:

Just letting you know about a change to our August schedule.