MSGTAG and Thunderbird

[Peter]

I have been using Msgtag with Outlook Express, which is very useful. Does
anyone know how the settings to configure Thunderbird to use Msgtag? It is
providing more complicated and difficult than I first thought. In prefer
Thunderbird to OE but Msgtag is extremely useful in telling me when my
emails have been opened and at what time.

Peter

[ovidiu]

may try kinda same settings, but probably better to ask them, as maybe
is not supported or a known issue...

[VanguardLH]

"Peter" wrote in message
news:48qdneWMvf9N8i_a...@mozilla.org...

MsgTag uses the old spammer trick of inserting web beacons into an
email.

- Works if the email is sent in HTML format but not in plain-text
format (and why they convert your e-mail from plain-text to HTML that
goes through their proxy).

- Works only if the recipient does not block linked external content
when reading emails. I'm pretty sure all email clients now have the
option to block externally linked content and that it is enabled by
default. Even many webmail providers now have an option to block
externally linked content and have it enabled by default.

So MsgTag has become worthless. MsgTag only works with boob
recipients who deliberately misconfigure their email client to reduce
security.

[Bob P]

It's fairly easy to configure TB to work with MSGTAG. I've had it
working for well over a year (with limited usefulness because most
people's e-mail clients block downloading images from the net, as
someone else here said).
I don't have time right now to write down the settings, but I think
you can find them on the MSGTAG website at http://www.msgtag.com which
is one of the silliest-looking websites I've ever seen. If you can't
find the info, e-mail them and they'll tell you how to do it.
The MSGTAG people use TB themselves. :)
Good luck.

Bob

[Ron K.]

VanguardLH keyboarded, On 2/13/2008 7:35 AM :

> "Peter" wrote in message
> news:48qdneWMvf9N8i_a...@mozilla.org...
>> I have been using Msgtag with Outlook Express, which is very useful.
>> Does anyone know how the settings to configure Thunderbird to use
>> Msgtag? It is providing more complicated and difficult than I first
>> thought. In prefer Thunderbird to OE but Msgtag is extremely useful
>> in telling me when my emails have been opened and at what time.
>
>
> MsgTag uses the old spammer trick of inserting web beacons into an email.
>
> - Works if the email is sent in HTML format but not in plain-text
> format (and why they convert your e-mail from plain-text to HTML that
> goes through their proxy).
>
> - Works only if the recipient does not block linked external content
> when reading emails. I'm pretty sure all email clients now have the
> option to block externally linked content and that it is enabled by
> default. Even many webmail providers now have an option to block
> externally linked content and have it enabled by default.

Tbird by default blocks remote content of HTML messages. Only senders
who are trusted and marked as such in Personal Addressbook can have
remote content.

>
> So MsgTag has become worthless. MsgTag only works with boob
> recipients who deliberately misconfigure their email client to reduce
> security.

Right, a global disabling of remote content does blow the security
policies of Tbird.

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Ron K.
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