Asking internally what the story behind this is..

Scott.

On Nov 30, 2007 5:42 PM, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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
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> >
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> >


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Regards,
Scott Barnes
http://www.mossyblog.com

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