On 1/7/07 11:03 PM, "Bellwether" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 1/7/07 1:22 PM, lindsay jones wrote:
> 
>> If I send myself a letter, I get a notice back saying I read it, and I'm
>> using Entourage. However, there are definitely times when I do not get a
>> notice back and people have read the email. It's a little inconsistent, but
>> from my limited knowledge, Entourage does work with it.
> 
> I just set up my account to test it.
> 
> It works (you get a "read" notice) if you click to "Download Pictures" when
> you read the email. If you don't, you don't trigger their invisible beacon
> and you don't get a notice.
> 
> Interestingly, it turned my Plain Text email into HTML -- I suppose so it
> could embed the beacon without showing an attachment?

It does that because the image is stored on a web server, and HTML code
naturally allows one to embed an image stored on the web.  Attached images
are just that, so they aren't stored on a web server, and download
statistics are not applicable.

-- 
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/>


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