• no (unregistered)

    "This message is from a trusted sender" could very well be part of the email body itself

  • AzureDiamond (unregistered)

    that truck is a emoji: 🚚 🚒🛻🚛

  • (nodebb)

    The spam mail thing is really weird. FedEx is using GMail addresses, and it's a trusted sender? Maybe the scammer was smart enough to add the trusted sender banner directly to the top of the email.

    I agree to AzureDiamond that the truck is obviously an emoji.

    And regarding the question why embedded images are rarely used: Many mail providers don't allow them. I once implemented a service adding embedded images to emails, only to find out that they won't go through AWS' SMTP servers.

  • ichbinkeinroboter (unregistered)

    Defintely a WTF. The @#$%^!! computers don't get to swear at US. WE swear at the @#$%^!! computers !!!!

  • WirSindDieRoboter (unregistered)

    Data URLs, maybe? RfC 2397

  • COBOL Dilettante (unregistered)

    My webmail provider has several levels of trust - trustworthy enough to not get sent immediately to the spam folder, and trustworthy enough actually to display images. Though when it blocks images, it (correctly) says it's to protect my privacy, rather than because it thinks they're spam

  • (nodebb)

    Since embedding images was the whole point of MIME in the first place, I have found it odd that they're so so hard to construct with typical marketing mass mailers,

    It's not at all odd. If they use exclusively embedded images, they (the spammers) cannot detect that you've opened the email and seen the images. (To say nothing of Melissa U's point, which is definitely worth considering.)

  • Scragar (unregistered)

    "Erorr"

    Your erred typing "error".

  • (author) in reply to Melissa U

    "Many mail providers don't allow them. I once implemented a service adding embedded images to emails, only to find out that they won't go through AWS' SMTP servers." :exploding-head-emoji: I don't know the state of Nate Borenstein's health this days but this can't be good for his state of mind.

  • (author) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    "If they use exclusively embedded images" Point taken, I would assume that for tracking purposes I'd rather use a transparent pixel or something that isn't critical to the message I'm trying to convey, with embedded images for everything of value. They USED to work well. If AWS blocks them then they should have their SMTP license revoked.

  • (author) in reply to Scragar
    Your erred typing "error".
    Bit of an inside joke.
  • (nodebb)

    Eight hundred thousand alerts per night may sound like something is faulty, but the Rubin Observatory's forecast is for seven million per night.

  • (nodebb)

    Embedded images also mean you pay the UUencoded bandwidth price on every sent email. If instead the message has the url of an image you host somewhere, you only pay the price when the email is viewed. Which for spam might be 1 in 10,000.

  • aussieSusan (unregistered)

    The temperature ‘inversion’ might be real. In Melbourne (Australia) we can have a hot night followed by a cold change during the day. As the ‘day’ starts at 9AM, it is quite possible for the ‘low’ to be higher than the ‘high’ - but rare.

  • aussieSusan (unregistered)

    The temperature ‘inversion’ might be real. In Melbourne (Australia) we can have a hot night followed by a cold change during the day. As the ‘day’ starts at 9AM, it is quite possible for the ‘low’ to be higher than the ‘high’ - but rare.

  • Angela (unregistered) in reply to Lyle Seaman

    He seems like he's doing fairly well - he linked to an article about his health struggles on his website. https://www.guppylake.com/2025/index.html

  • A Human (unregistered) in reply to Lyle Seaman

    I though aws would be blocking it because they didn't have any functional datacenters to receive it.

    Either way, it's aws. PaaS. Problems as a service.

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