At 5:18 PM -0600 3/24/03, Tatum, Richard wrote:
>In the specific case of hotmail, everything from the top of the
>email (the doctype declaration) to the first table tag in our
>email was overwritten--eliminating our stylesheet declarations as
>well as any <body> tag modifications we had in place. To add
>insult to the injury, Hotmail rewrites all the incoming image
>SRC"*" and HREF="*" tags to point to their own caching servers.
>But beware: the caching servers time out, so if a user keeps an
>email message open too long (likely, if you send a lot of
>content), the HTML redirects that Hotmail substituted for your
>URLs start decaying.
I would be interested in your tests on Yahoo. From earlier casual
observations, I suspect the results will be the same, but you are
obviously being more careful in your analysis.
>Strangely, if you forward the message from Hotmail to some other
>ISP or if you download your Hotmail messages with Outlook
>Express, nothing gets rewritten--the original message arrives in
>the remote inbox as though there had never been a badly mangled
>version sent from Hotmail.
Wow. I think you will *not* find this with Yahoo. In specific, I
think that Yahoo will forward the message with the SRC"*" and
HREF="*" tags in their re-written states, but I could be wrong.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
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