Michael Scheidell wrote: HS_INDEX_PARAM: tell them not to use web bugs in their marketing emails
Hi Michael, since we are sending out newsletters (to people who really subscribed :) and I got the role to be my own "email marketing company", I want to comment on that. We are using a setup similar to ezmlm, so the mail sender contains a bit of encoding that identifies the recipient. We routinely unsubscribe recipients whose mailbox returns "no such user" I believe this kind of tagging really helps - when someone subscribes as a...@somewhere.com and installs a redirect to b...@somewhereelse.com, it is often impossible to find the real recipient other than from the tag. When I first started that system, our mails also had a tendency to be filtered because of the hex string I used at that time - probably a slightly different rule but similar in spirit. I am still using this tagging, just that my tags are no hex strings BTW: the OP is in a quite lucky situation: he knows that the system uses SA and can probably configure whitelisting etc. I see quite a few failed subscriptions in the postmaster box, where the recipients certainly have no idea what their systems do to avoid receiving mail, let alone would be able to fix it Regards Wolfgang Hamann
