>-----Original Message----- >From: Hamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:31 AM >To: Kenneth Porter >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: harsh image rules > > >Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> --On Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:03 PM +0100 Geoff Soper >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Can anyone think why somebody would legitimately send a message >>> containing >>> '<img="http' to me? Bear in mind that any companies doing business >>> with me >>> won't be sending mail to the address being filtered i.e. my personal >>> address. >> >> >> I can't think of a reason for someone outside your >organization to do so. >> > >Well... Not a reason, but the marketing teams where I work >seem awfully >keen on doing this... They want to send fancy html mails to >the customer >base, but don't want it to be too big (We virus check all >outbound email >as well as inbound & the CPU budget gets a real hammering when >the mail >is 200kB in size :). Also the tool they use doesn't go very fast when >the email size starts getting up... > >Anyway... The images are all on a web server somewhere & the customers >mail client is expected to access them from there (Dabs does the same, >so do handango etc). > >I've warned them it's not a very good idea sa spammers like doing this >too... But I'm not expecting them to listen... > >> I believe you can do this in Exchange, though, so that one can put >> bulky images for a newsletter on the company server and >email just the >> HTML to internal recipients. In that narrow context the feature has >> some utility. (Although I'd just put up a PDF and send a >link to that.) >>
I may be misunderstanding but here goes: Web based linked images will be caught by SURBL. (Bigevil for those still insane enough to use it) However I -think- what this thread is about is embedded images sent with the email? In which case I can see a rule being made for that, as no legit sender that I know would do that. HOWEVER, I'm sure their is legit mailers that may send this way. As a matter of fact, I think I just got an email from my wife who uses Apple Message framework v552 and it does this. So it may need to be a ruleset with metas for certain known mailers that do this. Not an easy thing. --Chris
