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Subject:  French attack email tracking
Author:   Alex Chudnovsky:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   17:02:29 24 August 2004
 
>Actually Outlook 2004 protects you against this. I
>assume they work by sending an HTML email with an
>invisible image in it, and Outlook 2004 blocks any
>downloads.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 enables similar protection for Outlook Express - must say its nice, even though some good HTML emails suffer as the result.

What I find interesting (but not fully tested by me yet) is that embedded (attached with email) images show up just fine. Back in Jungle.com we used to attach all images because we found that responses rates are better. This approach can be back in force this year.
 
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        Actually Outlook 2004 protects you against this.  I assume they work by sending an HTML email with an invisible image in it, and Outlook 2004 blocks any downloads. ...
        • French attack email tracking, Alex Chudnovsky, 24 Aug 17:02
          >Actually Outlook 2004 protects you against this. I >assume they work by sending an HTML email with an >invisible image in it, and Outlook 2004 blocks any >downloads. Window ...
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              Yes I know they are not blocked because they are not external source, I was just mentioning that because given option of losing open email tracking AND images as opposed to just l ...
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