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The case of the terribly slow PayPal emails
- ck2 15y agoYou shouldn't rely on paypal's email anyway. Use their instant notification API https://paypal.com/ipn 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.
- dthakur 15y agoThe 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.
- gnu6 15y agoEveryone should block all access to 2o7.net, the same as Google Analytics. Nothing useful comes from them.
- powertower 15y agoWhat are 2o7.net & omtrdc.net? http://www.omniture.com/en/privacy/2o7 http://www.omniture.com/en/privacy/2o7
- epc 15y agoTL;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.