Update - Web Bug File

Brenda Bell b311b-ms at theotherbell.com
Thu Oct 29 00:45:31 UTC 2015


Oh wait… I missed the part about the URL being used on the client. I 
thought it was being referenced from the server… so file URL won’t 
work either.

On 28 Oct 2015, at 20:43, Brenda Bell wrote:

> Actually, that makes me ask another question… will MailScanner work 
> with a file URL like file:///etc/MailScanner/1x1spacer.gif?
>
> On 28 Oct 2015, at 19:44, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>> Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>>
>>> Suggestion for next version:
>>>
>>> Your-MailScanner-CDN = "http://localhost/"
>>> Web Bug Replacement = %Your-MailScanner-CDN%/1x1spacer.gif
>>
>>
>> If you literally mean 'localhost' you can't do that. You have no 
>> control
>> over where the mail client reading the 'disarmed' email might be or 
>> what
>> its notion of 'localhost' is.
>>
>> MailScanner also doesn't know what URL will access 1x1spacer.gif on 
>> the
>> local machine even if it knows where it put it.
>>
>> So really the only sensible default might be
>>
>> Your-MailScanner-CDN = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/mailscanner/images"
>> Web Bug Replacement = %Your-MailScanner-CDN%/1x1spacer.gif
>>
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