What is and why is my email client trying to use opencounter in a bulk email?

cafe_carl

We found some code being inserted into emails sent by our proprietary email system and have no idea of its provenance. My company sends a lot of bulk email for clients. (We follow all the best practice protocols to ensure we're not spammers.) The system is proprietary, based on open source code. Customers have a GUI to enter content, similar to the big guys like MailChimp and the like. A staff member brought a UI challenge with the GUI to me,...

Originally asked by bpeterson76 on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It appears that "opencounter" is a proprietary counting mechanism used by Exact Target's bulk mailing system. Apparently, the client was copy/pasting from an old campaign done on ExactTarget to move the design to our system. It is therefore safe for me to remove.

Full answer by bpeterson76: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/4055927 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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