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Wed 23 Jun, 2004 11:02 am
Frequently, I receive email that is simply an unopened envelope. I delete it, of course, but there is never a message. What am I deleting?
You're saying it's an e-mail without subject and body text?
I also received some of these, but couldn't figure out what they were for - actually I didn't think about it a lot.
You should think about getting yourself a POP3 filter software.
hamster, it doesn't seem to cause any problems. I am just very curious about what it is. About the filter, often the sender uses code to get around that.
Letty I got myself this neat little program:
http://www.spamihilator.com/
It's freeware and works pretty good for me since you can make it learn from the spam you received, you can manage a "friends-list" and other cool stuff.
It helped to decrease the spam I received by...I dunno quite some percentage.
Really worth taking a look!
Thanks, hamster. I have several "fixes" in my favorites, and I'll check this one out.
I understand that many of these are simply spammers finding out which email addresses are still active. They have software to tell them you opened it also.
That's interesting, Nick. The only way I can delete it is to click on it, and that, of course, opens it most of the time.
I really just find it tiresome, because I never do business on the internet. You would think that after a while these odd people would get MY message.
check out didtheyreadit.com. It is this software and software like it that tells them whether or not the mail has been read and if the email account is active.
Gonna do that right now, Nick.
Uh Nick, that piece of software does look nasty to me.
I heard of e-mails being sent back to the sender, but the receiver of the original message always was consulted before that happened thus made able to prevent the e-mail client from doing so.
Oh, dear. As I once said, When in doubt do nothing.
I tried it a couple of times. It confirmed delivery of the email and let me know the time and date the recipient opened it. It is nasty stuff.
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010423.shtml
The website basically points out the method behind that software:
A tiny image 1 pixel x 1 pixel is added to the e-mail message. That image resides on the company's server. As soon as the recipient of your message opens that very same one the server of the company registers your access to the image embedded in the message and therefore can tell the sender if and when the message was opened.
Well,it seams we cann't keep our e-mail privacy any more.The sender would always know whether we have opened it or not.Nasty stuff.It makes me feel that someone is spying on me.
Yep, just found another one of those freakin things in my mailbox.
One thing we all might wanna try is to keep our e-mail client from opening "external" images.
A method that might help you doing so, is to let Outlook Express open every e-mail in "tex-only" mode.
By doing so any image added to the message won't be displayed or opened.
James ye, Welcome to A2K and the world of envelopes.
Well, hamster, et.al. If you use your computer for business, that can be a terrible mess.
Hamster, we will also be missing out on the joyful photographs our loved ones send and funny pictures my friends send me and all kinds of visual goodies. Is there another solution?
As far as I remember when turning on the "text-only" mode you still get a listing of photos and pictures added to the message. So you still can see all the funny stuff your friends send you.
Yet unfortunately I haven't figured out how to turn that text thing on in Outlook Express and whether it does work in the end.
Anyone got suggestions?
Got another one this morning, and I did find that by right clicking and deleting, the thing vanished without having opened.
Sorry, hamster. I have no idea about techie stuff.
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