Discovering Machine Opens

[mike]

Hi- First, love the newsletter plugin!

I’m wondering if there’s anything in the works to help identify “machine opens” of emails and links?

Right now we get a high percentage of interactions that include Devlivery, Open, and Clicked… reactivity is very high.

But the question arises when I see that those users have clicked on <every single link in the email>. I find that highly unlikely, and expect there are mail filters involved.

Any thoughts?

[Stefano]

No, we’re not aware of secure methods to block them. We already have in the code some filters to block the known bot, but most of the time they load the content using “user agents” that cannot be distinguished from standard browsers.

Event the IP addresses are not easy to identify.

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