Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:03 PM +0100 Geoff Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anyone think why somebody would legitimately send a message containing
'<img="http' to me? Bear in mind that any companies doing business with me
won't be sending mail to the address being filtered i.e. my personal
address.
I can't think of a reason for someone outside your organization to do so.
Well... Not a reason, but the marketing teams where I work seem awfully keen on doing this... They want to send fancy html mails to the customer base, but don't want it to be too big (We virus check all outbound email as well as inbound & the CPU budget gets a real hammering when the mail is 200kB in size :). Also the tool they use doesn't go very fast when the email size starts getting up...
Anyway... The images are all on a web server somewhere & the customers mail client is expected to access them from there (Dabs does the same, so do handango etc).
I've warned them it's not a very good idea sa spammers like doing this too... But I'm not expecting them to listen...
I believe you can do this in Exchange, though, so that one can put bulky images for a newsletter on the company server and email just the HTML to internal recipients. In that narrow context the feature has some utility. (Although I'd just put up a PDF and send a link to that.)
