Re: Eavesdropping on email

2009-08-23 Thread PowerMail Engineering
cheshirekat wrote: >It >claims to be able to know when the email was received, when it was >opened, whether attachments were opened, and how long the email was >opened for. Are they able to gather this information from PowerMail? There is no way for the sender to know if a plain text message has

Re: Eavesdropping on email

2009-08-22 Thread Ben Kennedy
Richard Hart wrote at 3:41 PM (-0700) on 8/22/09: >If you do not know the person who sent the HTML message, don't "view as HTML". Alternatively, turn off the "download external pictures" checkbox in Preferences, then feel free to view as HTML. (You can then choose to load images on demand at you

Re: Eavesdropping on email

2009-08-22 Thread Richard Hart
Nope. This is Internet myth territory. If you display email as HTML, someone can embed in the message an image that is loaded via a URL request. That someone now knows that you requested the image and can deduce that you probably viewed his message as HTML. If you trust the person who sent the HT

Re: Eavesdropping on email

2009-08-22 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
cheshirekat (cheshire...@pobox.com) wrote: > For instance, I discovered this Web Site today, www.didtheyreadit.com/index.php> and wondered if this really works. It > claims to be able to know when the email was received, when it was > opened, whether attachments were opened, and how long the emai

Eavesdropping on email

2009-08-21 Thread cheshirekat
I worked for a company that claimed they could track whether email they sent was read on both Windows and Mac platforms. I didn't think much about it at the time because their Mac support at the time was buggy and minimal. However, it has been at the back of my mind frequently since then when I re