Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails
by t0mas88 on Sunday April 06, 2014 @04:12AM
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I'm curious what approach they took, because iframes don't really work in email (the majority of the clients block them, including gmail which they use in their example). Another option would be an image rendering of the message, but that would be pretty annoying to the recipient for not being able to select, copy or re-flow text.
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They do images, with a link "click here to view as text" that redirects to sendpluto's web viewer.
If that's true, then it's misleading to call it e-mail. All the recipient gets is a link to an offsite database.
Hi lutusp,
The content displays automatically in the email client. The link is only relevant if you want to copy/paste/make in-line comments. Thanks for your comment.
Lindsay Co-Founder @ Pluto Mail
Now that google fetches the images from its own servers once and then renders for all, would this even work?
Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails
by SquareWheel on Sunday April 06, 2014 @04:50AM
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Sure, if they used a unique filename for each email. Something like render.png?id=12345.
no, he means that because google caches the image upon reciept you can neither change the email nor delete it after it is sent.
Last I've checked google does proxy the images, but doesn't cache nor prefetch them. Has anything changed recently?
I guess that's why the email can only be unsent or modified until the recipient opens it.
We support unsend at anytime. We technically could also support edit at anytime, even after open, but we do not because we believe editing after open serves no legitimate purpose - just manipulation. It doesn’t even seem fun to us. Thanks for commenting.
Lindsay, Co-Founder @ Pluto Mail
Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails
by tmacwilliam on Sunday April 06, 2014 @04:17AM
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Based on https://www.sendpluto.com/help, it looks like they could be creating images of the email text and sending the images in an email. That way, they're free to manipulate the image even after the email is sent.
Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails
by josephagoss on Sunday April 06, 2014 @04:28AM
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This would only for images linked back to Pluto correct? If they simply sent an image surely they can't come into my inbox and modify files?
Correct. The scheme requires some way to link the received e-mail's content to Pluto's servers. This must be so because it's not possible to delete or modify an independent email (i.e. one without links) once it's been delivered.