[BNM] HTML styled emails

[Chris Billett]

I might well be stating the obvious, and don¹t mean to sound patronising,
but the reason remote image links are disliked by adminstrators and mail
clients is that they are regularly used by spammers to track who opens and
loads an email. It¹s fairly straight forward with a bit of creative php et
cetara on the remote server/in the email. This can then varify people for
more targetted spam. Just one would obviously be able to do this, ergo most
webmail/email programs don¹t automatically download them, and HTML emails
using them will not usually display how you¹d like.

What I¹m saying is that even one would flag up your message to many
well-meaning spam filters!

CB

On 7/9/07 10:25, "Martin Gordon" <martin.gordon at worthdigital.com> wrote:

> One thing we have found when making HTML emails here is that Lotus Notes
> strips out remote image links but lets through embedded images. This is
> a pain as one of the best Email Marketing services locally is Pure360
> and they do not allow more than one embedded image [quite rightly too as
> the bandwidth overhead would be stupidly big - increasing the cost per
> mail sent that would ultimately eat into your ROI possibly making it
> worthless sending the email in the first place].
> 
> Mart
> 
> Barry Prendergast wrote:
>> > This is perfect! Thanks Martin. I've been reading through the code and
>> > it's better, as usual, than any tutorial.
>> >
>> > B
>> >
>> >