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Leo
Can I insert a trace link into email message sent with outlook?
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Gordon
Leo said:Can I insert a trace link into email message sent with outlook?
Have you tried Read Receipt?
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VanguardLH
Leo said:Can I insert a trace link into email message sent with outlook?
Oh, a "trace link". If you mean a web beacon, yes, you can add on but
only in an HTML-formatted document. Of course, if the user blocks
externally linked content then your web beacon won't work, and if they
read in plain-text mode than nothing of HTML is rendered when they read
your e-mail. While the number of users that read in plain-text is low
enough that a spammer won't care about them not retrieving the web
beacon (so the spammer can see their e-mail got opened), most users have
e-mail clients that [usually by default] will block externally linked
content. So your attempt at secretely discovering that the recipient
without asking for their permission is not likely.
MsgTag is one of those web beacon service providers that copied the
trick from spammers. Very easy to thwart by e-mail recipients by doing
only 1 of the following:
- Block externally linked content (default in most e-mail clients, an
option by some e-mail providers).
- Read in plain-text mode.
- Use an anti-spam product, like a proxy, that strips out externally
linked content or mangles the <IMG> tag to an invalid HTML tag, like
<XIMG> (SpamPal's HTMLModify plug-in comes to mind).