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Tuesday, 7 October 2008 1:15 pm

Reject those nosy email messages

Monday, 4 February 2008  

MS Outlook uses a “tracking option” which enables the sender of an email to determine when the recipient has actually read it. If, like me, you find this “feature” an intrusion of privacy, you can do something about it.

I simply use the following regular expression pattern in my spam filtering software:

REJECT = ^disposition-notification-to: .*

While someone requesting a “read receipt” doesn’t technically make it spam, the end result is good enough for me; their email just gets deleted before it gets into my inbox.

Posted in Email, Security, Technology, Tips by Ivan
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