HN Explorer

13 comments

[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 141 ms ] thread
harianus
How does this technically work?
fiatjaf
No way I'm going to believe this unless you explain me how it works.
playeren
I really hope it's more than just "your text is now hosted images instead!".
krapp
I'm having difficulty imagining any other way to do it.

Although the site also says it can also remove your attachments, so maybe the "email" itself is entirely hosted by unsend.it, which sends a link (probably a token) to the recipient on behalf of your account?

playeren
Ha, that would be something! "Dear Colleague, Please click this link to read something I just wrote in an email, so you can read it on a webpage (maybe, if I still feel like it)"
krapp
...and please enjoy this complementary tracking gif and bouquet of advertisements.
lepunk
Yes, we are doing it via images which are hosted on our server securely encrypted.

We offer 3 different sending modes: - tracking only -> the email can't be modified after sending but you get a notification when the recipient opens the mail - attachments only -> you can not modify the emails content but you can modify / remove attachments - full unsend -> you can modify / remove contents of the emails after its been sent / opened + same for attachments

iqonik
Even this is flawed as gmail caches images so any subsequent edits would not be displayed!
lepunk
we worked around that and it works quite well
iqonik
How did you work around that? As far as I know mailchimp aren't able to so if you know how, you might have a product in itself!
pavornyoh
How do you modify something that is "read by the recipient"?. Let's use this example as a case studies. This guy in this article http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/man-accidental... Can you explain how he'd have corrected this situation with your services? Enlighten us with a step by step correction if you don't mind. Just trying to understand your services.