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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by mqzaidi on Sunday April 06, 2014 @04:20AM (#7540255)
Now that google fetches the images from its own servers once and then renders for all, would this even work?
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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by SquareWheel on Sunday April 06, 2014 @04:50AM (#7540331)
Sure, if they used a unique filename for each email. Something like render.png?id=12345.
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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by chacham15 on Sunday April 06, 2014 @04:59AM (#7540346)
no, he means that because google caches the image upon reciept you can neither change the email nor delete it after it is sent.
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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by robryk on Sunday April 06, 2014 @07:20AM (#7540607)
Last I've checked google does proxy the images, but doesn't cache nor prefetch them. Has anything changed recently?
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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by kijin on Sunday April 06, 2014 @06:34AM (#7540526)
I guess that's why the email can only be unsent or modified until the recipient opens it.
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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by capybaraz on Sunday April 06, 2014 @02:54PM (#7542124)
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

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