On 2012/06/09 05:24, haman...@t-online.de wrote:
Michael Scheidell wrote:
HS_INDEX_PARAM: tell them not to use web bugs in their marketing emails
Hi Michael,
since we are sending out newsletters (to people who really subscribed :) and I
got
the role to be my own "email marketing company", I want to comment on that.
We are using a setup similar to ezmlm, so the mail sender contains a bit of
encoding
that identifies the recipient.
We routinely unsubscribe recipients whose mailbox returns "no such user"
I believe this kind of tagging really helps - when someone subscribes as
a...@somewhere.com
and installs a redirect to b...@somewhereelse.com, it is often impossible to
find the real recipient
other than from the tag.
When I first started that system, our mails also had a tendency to be
filtered because of the hex string I used at that time - probably a slightly
different rule
but similar in spirit.
I am still using this tagging, just that my tags are no hex strings
BTW: the OP is in a quite lucky situation: he knows that the system uses SA
and can probably configure whitelisting etc. I see quite a few failed
subscriptions
in the postmaster box, where the recipients certainly have no idea what their
systems do
to avoid receiving mail, let alone would be able to fix it
Regards
Wolfgang Hamann
So think your way through the problem. Do not include web bugs in normal
emailings. Confirm bounced emails with an email that contains the web bug.
That way the marketing mail goes through; and you can still discover the
real addresses of the bounced emails. It takes some extra emails. But that
could probably be fully automated.
There are other ideas. But you'll have to think of them yourself. I am not
going to feed good ideas to spammers.
{^_^}
