Comments on: OT: Disappearing e-mails

by: Drag0n

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:44:24 +0000

However, with today’s spam filter craze, we do need some way to be sure that our message was actually received by the intended recipient. Unfortunately there is no way of knowing that with today’s email, since the Read Receipt Notification can be (and normally is) declined.

There are some new email standard proposals. One is EmailXT (www.emailxt.com). EmailXT takes care of that problem by issuing a Return Receipt for every message that is recived at the mailbox. That way, the sender always gets a delivery confirmation.

by: dragonthoughts

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:05:24 +0000

True, but many email clients, such as Mozilla Thunderbird allow the embedded image tactic to be defeated, by giving default options to “Block loading of remote images” and “Block Javascript in emails”.

With respect to the Javascript in emails, I can not think of any legitimate use of it, but I can think of many questionable ones.

Some legitimate emails do contain links to remote images, as a means to reduce bandwidth and storage of emails, but again, email clients like Thunderbird do give you the option to selectively load the images from trusted sources, as they do the delivery of Message Delivery Notifications (return receipts).

by: IncrediBILL

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:59:29 +0000

Read Receipt Notification is so old-hat and so often declined that hardly anyone uses it anymore.

Mass marketers just insert a graphic tracking bug into the email or use something like LivePerson, and they can actually see you reading your email in real-time. Of course that assumes that you’re both online and reading HTML-based email.