How to disable links on forwarded email

[Joe]

Is there a way to disable a link on an email when it's forwarded to
someone else?

Thanks

[Bruno Alexandre]

I don't think that is an easy task.

One idea could be add the email of the recipient and when click the link would follow to your web place first to check if it's ok or not to follow or give a warning.

let's assume:

http://mychecklinks.com/?r=sb35a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709&h=da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

and imagine that hash key as the subscriber email and the "r" is the redirect url.

to check if the email is OK, al you need to see if check the email against MC logs and see from what IP the user opened against the HTTP_REFERRER variable.

if they match, continue, if not, show a warning.

This method, as you can see has some faults, from the top of my head, only the computer that opened the email from the first time (the one MC log, right Jesse?) would actually go to links, but if the user open the same email in a cyber cafe (using GMail, for example), even though it's a legit user, it will never open as the IP's are not the same. 

This is just to let you know that it's not a easy task :)

Bruno Alexandre
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[jesse]

In order to do modify link behavior based on where it was opened or
"who" opened it, you would have to completely turn off our link
tracking and then come up with some sort of complex logic like Bruno
has provided an example of. More than likely, as he mentioned, you'll
end up in a situation where a recipient only has fully working links
from the 1st place they open it.


jesse

On Aug 31, 3:13 am, Bruno Alexandre <bruno.in...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think that is an easy task.
>
> One idea could be add the email of the recipient and when click the link
> would follow to your web place first to check if it's ok or not to follow or
> give a warning.
>
> let's assume:
>
> http://mychecklinks.com/?r=sb35a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709&h=
> da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
>

> *

> and imagine that hash key as the subscriber email and the "r" is the
> redirect url.
>
> to check if the email is OK, al you need to see if check the email against
> MC logs and see from what IP the user opened against the HTTP_REFERRER
> variable.
>
> if they match, continue, if not, show a warning.
>
> This method, as you can see has some faults, from the top of my head, only
> the computer that opened the email from the first time (the one MC log,
> right Jesse?) would actually go to links, but if the user open the same
> email in a cyber cafe (using GMail, for example), even though it's a legit
> user, it will never open as the IP's are not the same.
>
> This is just to let you know that it's not a easy task :)
>

> Bruno Alexandre*

> [web]www.balexandre.com
> [twitter]http://twitter.com/balexandre
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Joe <giuseppe.salv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to disable a link on an email when it's forwarded to
> > someone else?
>
> > Thanks
>
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[Joe]

Bruno, thanks for your help. One question though; do you mean that we
should embed the email address in the URL? What is needed is to
compare the email of the user registered with MC with the user
currently signed in in the email client and I wonder if there's a way
to know who is the signed in user.

[Bruno Alexandre]

Hi Joe,

I'm not following you. You need to put in the URL as much info as you can as, after sending the email, there is no way you can change that information.

Let's take an example, you get a newsletter with links and YOU want to click in those and be delivered to a landing page, right?

Now, what information in the landing page do you need to block the user?

soon you assing the links in the newsletter, you no longer can change them, so, at least 2 things you know when sending the campaign, the RECIPIENT email (that will be a user in your list) and the link you want them to end as landing page.

There is no more information.

If you send me that Newsletter to me, the links will have the same destination and YOUR email, but ... how the landing page knows my email automatically?

You can always have a "what's your email" landing page, add a cookie not to question the user again, and check if that email is in your list as ou can pass the campaign ID as well to creat kinda report.

but you can do this automatically... the user needs t provide the email manually, and for some users, that's just a close window + put newsletter in trash.

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Bruno Alexandre
[web] www.balexandre.com
[twitter] http://twitter.com/balexandre
  
 

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