It sounds like Outlook hasn't been patched. This indeed is how it is supose to work. provided outlook 2003 has all updates applied.
On 11/30/07, Ryan Sabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Just an interesting thing I found the other day... > > I was building a little app that embeds a web bug in an email so I can > test if a user has read it. It uses a 1 pixel gif image, that has the source > pointing back at the server, so it makes a call to a CF page to tell me > who's read it... pretty basic tracking behavior... > > So I get the test emails in my inbox and I get the usual > "Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, > Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet" > > I expected this, and figured I would need to choose to download pictures > before my read would get tracked. However, before I did this, I looked at my > tracking database.. lo and behold it had recorded a read event for the email > I had just recieved... even though I didn't choose to download pictures. > > I always thought I Outlook wouldn't sent the GET request for the tracking > bug, until after I chose to download pictures. I assumed all the SPAM I get > wasn't actually sending messages back to the originators. Was I wrong? Has > anyone else noticed this behavioir.. or is there something funky with my > system? > > This is Outlook 2003 on Win XP by the way. > > thanks! > > > > Ryan Sabir > Technical Director > > *p:* (02) 9274 8030 > *f:* (02) 9274 8099 > *m:* 0411 512 454 > *w:* www.newgency.com *Newgency Pty Ltd* > Web | Multimedia | eMarketing > > 115 Cooper St > Surry Hills NSW 2010 > Sydney, Australia > > > > > > -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
