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Summary: Several urban legends would have you believe that when you forward an email it can somehow be tracked. It cannot. There's no way to know. How do I get a notification when anyone I send an email to forwards that email? You don't. While it's sometimes possible to get a notification when people have read your email (and even that's unreliable) there's simply no way for you to track what people do it after that. (There's even a whole set of urban legends surrounding email tracking ... and they're all false.) • Article 201 | Posted May 18, 2004 |
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Wow, I wish I could edit previous comments because some of that 5am grammar is atrocious. :(
Posted by: Chastity Benefits at September 15, 2004 5:09 AMHow Can I change my IP address frequently in the interval of some seconds?
Posted by: Gorkah at January 5, 2006 9:17 AMYou really can't, and you really don't want to -- it would likely confuse your ability to communicate on the internet.
Posted by: Leo at January 5, 2006 12:22 PMIs there a way that I can delete several emails without checking each one individually?(MSN Mail)
Posted by: Mary at September 19, 2006 9:18 AMI have several thousands and want to retain some of them.
It would be very hard to hide e-mails forwarded from Lotus notes - My guess is the person that you sent the e-mails to from your lotus notes account forwarded them to other parties - As Leo has stated - it would be hard - very hard to tell and with hackers getting more sophisticated each day, you would never quite tell if the information is reliable or not. As with IP Addresses, you can be anyone you want to be - and if someone has little information about you, they can be you in a heartbeat, wreck havoc and the rest would be history. In my experience; I would not trust everything that seems obvious because you might be suprised to find that it just might not.
Posted by: Barbara Anderson at December 3, 2006 6:43 PMTo Add to Barbara's point - Leo has stated in many of his articles that you can never trust the information that you have although it might seem pretty obvious. I would suspect that someone had access to your Lotus notes password in order to get to your account. Lotus Notes is typically used by corporations, and in my experience, most take security very seriously sometimes requiring finger print identification - in which case that would only mean that if you suspect that someone has access to your Lotus Notes account, then you need to contact your systems Manager. As Barbara has also stated, anyone can be "you" or anyone else in a heartbeat - which opens another can of worms! I suspect that your account has been hacked - you need to check with your ISP Provider - and my advise to you would be not to trust any content that might be out there purpoting to be from you includind IP addresses, or information obtained from Email headers...none of this can be trusted, and you also have to remember that not all email can be traced or authenticated. Legitimate mail typically can be traced, but for SPAM and virus-generated email it's difficult to say that the headers are absolutely trustworthy - I think that Leo covers that well in most of his topics - Most of the time the information might seem legitimate BUT 90% of the time - information can be falsified by the click of a mouse.
Posted by: Jason Briggs at December 3, 2006 7:18 PMTo answer Fred's question - when you forward anything from your lotus notes, a blue arrow always shows up on your inbox beside the message so that should be easy to figure out. If there is nothing, then most probably, your inbox has not been compromised. From your question, I am guessing that you believe your lotus notes e-mails have been tampered with? In my experience w ith Lotus Notes - I would highly doubt that someone would forward e-mails from your inbox and cover their tracks. My advice to you is to change your password every 45 days or so; if you can change your computer or laptop and require finger print identification before you can access your files, that would be great. If using a public computer or laptop - set up your lotus notes to require an additional password if you need to have access your e-mails.
Posted by: David at December 4, 2006 7:42 AMLeo, try readnotify.com. Forward an e-mail with it. It can tell! :o
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If the email is plain text email.
If the recipient has images turned off on email
Then no service can track whether an email has been opened
or not.
Leo
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What abot Read Notify ?
Posted by: patrick veck at October 1, 2008 5:40 AM