Flash General - Flash Embedded Emails

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Flash Embedded Emails

Dom Coppola

2005-09-19, 7:15 pm

Hello,

I currently work for a small marketing firm that is looking for new
ways to market products for our clients to their existing clients(I am
not a spammer!). A few months ago I did receive some spam, but this one
one different as it had a flash movie playing in it. This is a big deal
for me since Outlook 2003 blocks all flash based emails. But this one
got through.

I have tried every documented method online to do this (I wish I never
deleted the SPAM email I did get), however all attempts at embedding
flash into emails have failed miserably.

Does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this in order to circumvent
the ActiveX security feature that is enabled in all Outlook 2003
clients? If so I would greatly appreciate any advice that you may have
to give me.

Thanks

DC

Dom Coppola

2005-09-19, 7:15 pm

Gregory Dean wrote:
> This is actually a problem that started after Service Pack 2 for Windows XP
> was released. We quickly changed our Flash Communication Server to stream
> content on port 80. This, of course, didn't help with the ActiveX security
> issues but it did allow us to take a different approach to delivery.
>
> All of our audio/video email campaigns are composed in HTML with a
> "placeholder" graphic where you would normally see the video. If the
> consumer's email client allows ActiveX controls, the Flash Player is spawned
> and the video plays over the default graphic. If the client has the latest
> service pack, the placeholder graphic contains a message like: "Click here
> to play an important video message..." which in turn opens the client's web
> browser and the entire message loads from a web server.
>
> I know this doesn't solve your problem but perhaps offers an alternative.
>
> -Greg
>
> ----
> Gregory Dean
> CTO
> DME Holdings, LLC
> http://www.dmenet.com
>
>
>
> On 9/19/05 10:13 AM, in article 19mdnfc0RYO3VLPeRVn-rw@rogers.com, "Dom
> Coppola" <thequim@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
>
>
>
>

Hey Gregory,

Thanks for the quick response!. This doesn't solve the issue of
circumventing the ActiveX security issue which is the only problem I
have. I only wish I kept that email..... It was from the OrangeGlo
company and I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened it, as I was trying
to get around the security issues myself. Stupid me for deleting it.
Nonetheless, if I come across anything I will be more than happy to let
you know.

Thanks alot for your time!