[Mimedefang] Want to modify "read-receipt" img tags in mail

Ole Craig olc at cs.umass.edu
Thu May 20 10:11:07 EDT 2004


On 05/20/04 at 09:59, 'twas brillig and WBrown at e1b.org scrobe:
> mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 05/20/2004 09:28:56 
> AM:
> 
> > The article at the end of this message reaffirmed my interest in 
> modifying
> > emails that have tracking methods in them.  Currently all of the ones I 
> have
> > seen use <img src> tags.
> 
> Break all <IMG SRC> tags in the incoming email? 

> That will proabably annoy (or worse) some of your users when they don't 
> see the pretty pictures in their email.  I wish I could get away with 
> doing that.

	Likewise.

	Howsabout parsing just for <img
src="(http://www.netmsg.com/.*)"> and replacing $1 with
"http://www.myserver.org/WEB_BUG_TRACKER_WARNING.gif"?

	Cheers, 
		Ole
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