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Tracking url syntax.
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:27 pm
by lord_alan
Hi,
when openemm creates a tracking url, the unique id at the end contains many "."s (full stops).
Thunderbird doesn't like dots in the url and will generally flag it as spam. Does the tracking url really need to contains dots?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:06 pm
by maschoff
Could you please post such an URL here so that we are sure what you mean?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:37 pm
by lord_alan
Could you please post such an URL here so that we are sure what you mean?
Sure. Here you go:
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http://myopenemm.server.com/r.html?uid=1.f.oo.4a.80e7txb5ea
We think the quantity of dots after the
uid= might be affecting Thunderbird's spam filter.
Other mailers we notice tend to use a UUID type string with no dots such as this:
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... ct/ctcount.php?key=008349950092032000082574
or this:
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....net/rd?1=
=3DAvcE~wqJCv8S~cL7GoIe~yL~Jvsq~~D~&2=3D1420
To be honest though, sometimes Thunderbird is fine with OpenEMM mails and other times it isn't and flags it as "potential spam". But we haven't been able to ascertain quite what the trigger is yet.
There is a mention here of a similar problem although this is quite an old post so I am not sure if it is still relevant.
http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archi ... detection/
Cheers
Alan
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:14 pm
by maschoff
Ok, I got it. I read "the dots at the end" and was sure that no UID is ended with dots, but, of course, the UID string contains dots. I have to check the encryption algorithm, there might be a reason for the dots.