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Re:The case of the terribly slow PayPal emails by ck2 on Sunday October 16, 2011 @11:31AM (#3117488)
You shouldn't rely on paypal's email anyway.

Use their instant notification API https://paypal.com/ipn to have it trigger a script on your server to notify you any way you'd like.

You get more info from the api too and it's triggered before emails.

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Re:The case of the terribly slow PayPal emails by dthakur on Sunday October 16, 2011 @11:33AM (#3117494)
The article is about an investigation into why outlook was taking a long time to open paypal emails.

It is not related to relying on paypal's email for payment processing.

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Re:The case of the terribly slow PayPal emails by epc on Sunday October 16, 2011 @06:04PM (#3118442)
TL;DR: Paypal is embedding an image into its emails using the "//" shortcut, instead of specifying http: or https:.

This is wrong since it assumes the mail user agent loaded the content from a web server. There's zero benefit to dropping http: or https: in a URL in an email.

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Re:The case of the terribly slow PayPal emails by powertower on Sunday October 16, 2011 @01:06PM (#3117697)
What are 2o7.net & omtrdc.net?

http://www.omniture.com/en/privacy/2o7

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Re:The case of the terribly slow PayPal emails by gnu6 on Sunday October 16, 2011 @12:53PM (#3117669)
Everyone should block all access to 2o7.net, the same as Google Analytics. Nothing useful comes from them.
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