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1. solariiknight(ஆனந்த்) (solariiknight@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Jun-2018 05:17:06 EDT solariiknight(ஆனந்த்)
   Someone sent me an email with mail tracking from mailtrack.io. If I read the email, it automatically sends notifies the user that it has been read. Thunderbird blocks the user from being notified and I found out that the code embedded in email communicates with both mailtrack.io as well as s3.amazonaws.com. Now both of the addresses resolve to 127.0.0.1 in my PC ;-).
   
   Apparently this is method that is being used in marketing emails since long time - by using 1x1 pixel images embedded in email which notifies the sales team which of their email has been read.
   1. arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 05:07:14 EDT arunisaac

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      This is why many mail clients don't download remote assets by default. And, also why HTML email is bad.