On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 09:04, Jan wrote: > This is strictly speaking irrelevant - but this subject reminds me of > too many SPAM mails I have received recently. They all come with a > subject like 'Re: ...' or some claim that I requested something (a > report, pictures, ...). Or the classic: 'Hi, where have you been?' > > One wonders what they spammers want with this obviously brainless > approach. However, many of them are sent as html, and when you open > them, they will generate hits on whichever web-site they point to, and > for all you know this could be related to bomb-making or child-porn. > > Which mail-clients allow one to NOT interpret and show html-mail? The > latest Mozilla has an option, and text-only mailers would of course not > interpret html (or...?) > > /jan
I split this into a different thread since I am interested too. I use evolution and tell it not to download images. It will try to parse the html and I don't really know what it does with say a <script src=blahblah> tag and other things like that. The one time I looked into the how to track email reading, it worked by generating an img tag with a 1 pixel size and a src= name that was unique, then as far as I could tell, on the server it tied the unique file name to an address and used the access logs to figure out if the email had been opened by the person at that address. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
