recallable email!
 

yes you heard me. :D < - click me.

em click what pixie :confused:

Click the :D smilie...

aol has had this since at least version 3

Without registering for the service, you can already sorta guess how it does what it claims to do.

They say after you erase an e-mail, all that will remain in the recipient's inbox will be a subject line with an empty e-mail body. So they don't actually have the capability to reach into somebody's inbox and delete the message (that would be scary). But they can change the content of it...

We already know that SMTP only allows you to send a snapshot of a string of text outbound. So how do they change the content without actually modifying the text that represents the content?

We may safely conclude the e-mail cannot be plaintext, because there's no way you can achieve the above via plaintext.

So, it's got to be HTML; yet the markup is not the content itself. It's merely a pointer to some external source that can be changed at a later time.

Two candidates come to mind: inline frames (<iframe src=...>) and dynamic images (what many of us have in our sigs).

Of these two, only dynamic images work reliably across all HTML-capable e-mail clients.

Many online free e-mail services nowadays allow the recipient to block embedded images when viewing messages (so senders can't plant web bugs to track when and from which IP you are reading the message). Moreover, Microsoft is going to block embedded images for the WinXP-SP2 version of Outlook Express.

Conclusion: This "patent-pending" technology is doomed.

tada.wav *curtseys*

amazing... just amazing.























now i would like that summary turned into a 10 page essay and on my desk by monday.

10 pages!?! I can't bull-shit that much. Can you make it only 1/2 page?

no but griffin can :P

Apparently, well educated. :up:

In true Winamp Forums fashion, you can turn anything into 10 pages instantly. Allow me to demonstrate::p

Pfff, that banner at the top.
'Oh, haha, you can only view it once because I'm a skanky whore and want to be a cocktease. Oh moan for me, moan for me.'

I have four words for you:
'Print Screen Button, Irfanview.'

(Or whatever image editor you use that you can paste stuff into which is pretty much anything. I just use Irfanview because it's a sexy image viewer.)

Can't be printed or saved, bullshit. I can see the point of changing the content, but yeah. People can find simple loopholes, like that cd copy protection Shift key/ magic marker thing.

Shit I'm tired.

SHé SPEAKITH T3H TROOTH!

*yawns*

Doesn't sound all that great because of the problems with it given above. Also some people download their e-mail then read it offline, they wouldn't be able to see the content of these mails in that case.

If you want to do something like this then just put the message on a webpage then e-mail a link to it, you can then change it or remove it anytime you want.

Recall is a good feature though which I use at work (on Exchange server) but can't work properly on SMTP.

why don't yahoo, hotmail, gmail offer it?

Because It doesnt make much sense really. iframes and dynamic images are not very reliable ways of transmitizing e-mail. To many compaibility issues. I still need to get that PGP stuff running and see how that works. That and work on getting encrypted instant messaging.