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Jeff Chan writes: > On Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 3:59:33 PM, Douglas Daulton wrote: > > I am researching a recent problem with some of our double-optin > > subscriber email. Customers who subscribe to our email offers are > > actually getting the email in their inboxes. However, they are having > > trouble seeing certain assets, mostly images. We know this because our > > customers are emailing us and complaining that their eCoupons are not > > visible when they receive them. > > > We suspect there are new PC firewalls and SPAM filters that may see our > > email as "phishing" because the FROM domain (mgg01.net) does not sync > > with domain of the website from which these assets are pulled > > (mgmmirage.com). Can anyone confirm this? Any light shed on this > > would be very much appreciated. > > Two suggestions: > > 1. Don't send images. Send text with links to a web site with > the coupons. > > 2. Serve the images and send the messages from the ***same > domain*** mgmmirage.com. Why dilute your brand and scare away > your customers with an unfamiliar and possibly phishy domain like > mgg01.net? > > This is a cultural problem that will only get worse as phishing > becomes more of a problem. This came up during the discussion at > the CEAS conference. Another point is that many mail readers will not display *any* remote images loaded across the network from <img src> tags inside the message, due to their widespread use in spam as "web bugs". If I recall correctly, recent updates to MS Outlook implemented this change; I think Mozilla and Apple Mail have blocked remote images for much longer. I think that may be the problem you're running into -- and it has very little to do with SpamAssassin ;) - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBEDFQQTcbUG5Y7woRAosQAKDAnMinSh2mrDxQqc2qkdxTrDKtdACeM8yj HB7ZnX8wlFc3bRCraetEKGA= =ks+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
