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Show HN: UnSend.it, modify emails after its sent / read by the recipient

4 points by lepunk 11y ago

fiatjaf 11y ago
No way I'm going to believe this unless you explain me how it works.
- playeren 11y ago
  I really hope it's more than just "your text is now hosted images instead!".
  - krapp 11y ago
    I'm having difficulty imagining any other way to do it. Although the site also says it can also remove your attachments, so maybe the "email" itself is entirely hosted by unsend.it, which sends a link (probably a token) to the recipient on behalf of your account?
    - playeren 11y ago
      Ha, that would be something! "Dear Colleague, Please click this link to read something I just wrote in an email, so you can read it on a webpage (maybe, if I still feel like it)"
      - krapp 11y ago
        ...and please enjoy this complementary tracking gif and bouquet of advertisements.
- lepunk 11y ago
  Yes, we are doing it via images which are hosted on our server securely encrypted. We offer 3 different sending modes: - tracking only -> the email can't be modified after sending but you get a notification when the recipient opens the mail - attachments only -> you can not modify the emails content but you can modify / remove attachments - full unsend -> you can modify / remove contents of the emails after its been sent / opened + same for attachments
  - iqonik 11y ago
    Even this is flawed as gmail caches images so any subsequent edits would not be displayed!
    - lepunk 11y ago
      we worked around that and it works quite well
      - iqonik 11y ago
        How did you work around that? As far as I know mailchimp aren't able to so if you know how, you might have a product in itself!
harianus 11y ago
How does this technically work?
v3ss0n 11y ago
Impossibru!!!!!
_mikelcelestial 11y ago
I remembered Pluto Mail because of this.
pavornyoh 11y ago
How do you modify something that is "read by the recipient"?. Let's use this example as a case studies. This guy in this article http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/man-accidentally-sends-naked-selfies-to-hr-201529 http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/man-accidental... Can you explain how he'd have corrected this situation with your services? Enlighten us with a step by step correction if you don't mind. Just trying to understand your services.

4 points by lepunk 11y ago

fiatjaf 11y ago

No way I'm going to believe this unless you explain me how it works.

playeren 11y ago
I really hope it's more than just "your text is now hosted images instead!".
- krapp 11y ago
  I'm having difficulty imagining any other way to do it. Although the site also says it can also remove your attachments, so maybe the "email" itself is entirely hosted by unsend.it, which sends a link (probably a token) to the recipient on behalf of your account?
  - playeren 11y ago
    Ha, that would be something! "Dear Colleague, Please click this link to read something I just wrote in an email, so you can read it on a webpage (maybe, if I still feel like it)"
    - krapp 11y ago
      ...and please enjoy this complementary tracking gif and bouquet of advertisements.
lepunk 11y ago
Yes, we are doing it via images which are hosted on our server securely encrypted. We offer 3 different sending modes: - tracking only -> the email can't be modified after sending but you get a notification when the recipient opens the mail - attachments only -> you can not modify the emails content but you can modify / remove attachments - full unsend -> you can modify / remove contents of the emails after its been sent / opened + same for attachments
- iqonik 11y ago
  Even this is flawed as gmail caches images so any subsequent edits would not be displayed!
  - lepunk 11y ago
    we worked around that and it works quite well
    - iqonik 11y ago
      How did you work around that? As far as I know mailchimp aren't able to so if you know how, you might have a product in itself!

harianus 11y ago

How does this technically work?

v3ss0n 11y ago

Impossibru!!!!!

_mikelcelestial 11y ago

I remembered Pluto Mail because of this.

pavornyoh 11y ago

How do you modify something that is "read by the recipient"?. Let's use this example as a case studies. This guy in this article http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/man-accidentally-sends-naked-selfies-to-hr-201529 http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/man-accidental... Can you explain how he'd have corrected this situation with your services? Enlighten us with a step by step correction if you don't mind. Just trying to understand your services.