Hello,
Since the Wikiapiary upgrade, all email notifications I receive about edits in pages on my watchlists have their links point to "u3337383353.t.mailtrap.click" with very large URLs. This seems to be some URL redirection to track clicks.
Can this track code be removed from those emails?
Thanks in advance
-- Jesús Martínez Ciencia Al Poder
On Sun, 2023-04-09 at 12:43 +0200, Jesús Martínez wrote:
Since the Wikiapiary upgrade, all email notifications I receive about edits in pages on my watchlists have their links point to "u3337383353.t.mailtrap.click" with very large URLs. This seems to be some URL redirection to track clicks.
This is happening because WikiApiary needed a way to relay mail out from Azure and using mailtrap was the quickest way to do it.
The mail tracking was un-anticipated. I'm open to suggestions for how to set up mail relay from Azure. Otherwise, it will probably be the weekend before I have a chance to address this.
(Previously, WikiApiary was able to use my mail relay, but that is not available any more.)
Mark.
Hello Mark,
If you want some alternative solutions, I was using mailjet.com a few years for watchlist notifications on our wiki. It has a free plan for 6000 emails/month, and 200 emails/day. I don't know how much email traffic does WikiApiary handle, but it may fit your needs, and it has never added tracking code to links. If you send more than 200 emails/day, it will send up to 200 and will queue the rest for the next day, which will introduce a delivery delay in case there's a peak of emails to send.
There are other similar services with free tiers as well and different limits if you want to explore other possibilities.
Best regards,
-- Jesús Martínez Ciencia Al Poder
El lun, 10 abr 2023 a las 14:12, Mark A. Hershberger (mah@nichework.com) escribió:
On Sun, 2023-04-09 at 12:43 +0200, Jesús Martínez wrote:
Since the Wikiapiary upgrade, all email notifications I receive about edits in pages on my watchlists have their links point to "u3337383353.t.mailtrap.click" with very large URLs. This seems to be some URL redirection to track clicks.
This is happening because WikiApiary needed a way to relay mail out from Azure and using mailtrap was the quickest way to do it.
The mail tracking was un-anticipated. I'm open to suggestions for how to set up mail relay from Azure. Otherwise, it will probably be the weekend before I have a chance to address this.
(Previously, WikiApiary was able to use my mail relay, but that is not available any more.)
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On Wed, 2023-04-12 at 15:12 +0200, Jesús Martínez wrote:
If you want some alternative solutions, I was using mailjet.com a few years for watchlist notifications on our wiki. It has a free plan for 6000 emails/month, and 200 emails/day. I don't know how much email traffic does WikiApiary handle, but it may fit your needs, and it has never added tracking code to links.
I'll look at this this weekend. I just got a notice that we're reaching the limit on their free tier which covers 1000 emails a month.
6000 would probably give us good cover for now.
Mark.
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