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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => Development, Suggestions => Topic started by: Kino on February 18, 2006, 11:20:19 am
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I attended a seminar of email marketing experts this week. One piece of information I picked up is that spam blockers are now stopping messages that have a different domain name than the one listed in the email. LM's link tracking feature does this.
For example !link001 = mydomain.com/mail/blah.php?link001 in the body of an HTML email. The hyperlink appears as www.clientwebsite.com.
Presumably this is in order to block the Phishers. Makes the use of link tracking a problem however.
Maybe someone can come up with a smart workaround for this? Link opening and other tracking stats are certainly valued.
K
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Can you find any documentation on this restriction? I'd like to know how widespread it is and do some research about minimizing the damage to ListMailPRO users.
Off-hand, I can't think of a way to get around this very restrictive setting... possibly why they did it this way. :)
I don't see this catching on as it could kill e-zine advertising...
Regards
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Note, the problem really only exists if you print a URL in the email, and the hyperlink in the HTML is different. For example if you put "visit <link>my website</link>" instead of <link>www.mywebsite.com</link> and put the tracking URL on the link as you would normally the problem goes away.
I think you just have to be creative on this.
The information was only anecdotal. If you search SpamAssassin's list of spam flags it might reveal more info.
K
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Good information, thanks - I will no doubt check into this further. You may be interested in this related post (http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=1092.0).
Regards