Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread J.Milks
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Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread W Luke
- Original Message - From: "J.Milks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: cf-talk Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 2:01 PM Subject: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread JustinMacCarthy
Eh no! Not from a webpage... You can tell a mail client from the mail headers it sends sometimes... but you can detect people wearing ties ~ Justin - Original Message - From: "J.Milks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I think this is bunk, but a suit here is

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
I think this is bunk, but a suit here is telling me that it is possible = to detect the client's mail client. OK, I've used JS to detect browsers = and all associated stuff, but the mail client? Sometimes a header will identify the SMTP client program. But I'm pretty sure there's no reliable

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread Howie Hamlin
From my super secret JS Crypto-sembler I can see you're not wearing one g Howie - Original Message - From: "JustinMacCarthy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread Howie Hamlin
Actually, you can determine the remote mail client fairly reliably with iMS. iMS provides all the email headers and one of them looks something like: User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Sort of the same way you can get a browser type. There are still a few mail

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread JustinMacCarthy
not even one of these :-) http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/bazaar/mart/cart.cgi?action=viewtype=itemit emid=27da ~J From: "Howie Hamlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From my super secret JS Crypto-sembler I can see you're not wearing one g Howie but you can detect people wearing ties ~

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread J.Milks
Uh, what is iMS? Jim - Original Message - From: "JustinMacCarthy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:42 AM Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk] not even one of these :-)

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread Howie Hamlin
inFusion Mail Server which is a mail server that is controlled by ColdFusion. It has several advantages over traditional CF Mail solutions including: No CFPOP Needed (mail received is immediately processed by your templates) Can send up to 1024 mails at one time (CFMAIL can send only one at a

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread Larry W. Virden
So in cases like me, where I read mail via at least 4 different mail clients (pretty much at the same time...), exactly which client is coldfusion going to be able to detect? -- Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. Larry W. Virden mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:

RE: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread Mark Warrick
I don't think you can detect the mail client. And by the way, I seriously doubt you could detect the mail client BEFORE they sent you a message. I can see from the message you posted to the list that you're using "Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21" as your outbound

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread W Luke
Just received a message from a friend, and in the mail header is the following: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 Hadn't noticed it before.. Will - Original Message - From: "Mark Warrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: cf-talk Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 6:23 PM