An authorized link to a stored message is not a tracked click.

Answer An authorized link to a stored message is not a tracked click. RFC 4467 describes IMAP URLAUTH, a way to authorize access to a message by a URL. The document is RFC 4467, titled Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - URLAUTH Extension. That URL reaches a mailbox, not your offer page. Someone who follows it is being allowed to reach a stored message. They are not, by that fact, requesting the next page of your offer. If a report calls the mailbox URL a click, the report has pointed at the wrong door.

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The note that started this: RFC 4467, Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - URLAUTH Extension, RFC 4467.

Click, in a solo buy, should mean a person asked for the offer. A mailbox URL means a client was authorized to reach a message that is already stored. When you compare best solo ad vendors, ask which address the report counts. If the address opens a mailbox, you bought access to stored mail. If the address opens the offer, you bought a chance someone asked for the next page. Those are different products.

That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in. A buyer still has to name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line on the order. URLAUTH fills none of those blanks. A seller who opens with the mailbox URL and never names the list is handing you a public document and calling it a result. Read the document if you want. Pay only for the order.

What does RFC 4467 describe?

RFC 4467 describes IMAP URLAUTH, a way to authorize access to a message by a URL. The document is RFC 4467, titled Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - URLAUTH Extension. That URL reaches a mailbox, not your offer page.

Authorize access is the whole job you need to remember. The URL is a key to a stored message, not a path into your offer. You do not need the machinery that builds the key. You need to refuse the rename. A seller who counts those URLs as tracked clicks is counting keys to a mailbox. Keys are not decisions. A decision, if you are paying for one, is a request that lands on the offer you approved. Ask to see that address. If they cannot show it, the column is not about your offer.

The order says which address a click means.
A URL that reaches a mailbox is not that address.
The list, the sending domain, and the refund line are named.
The offer page is separate from stored-message access.

Is an authorized mailbox link a tracked click?

No. An authorized link to a stored message is not a tracked click. The URL authorizes access to a message in a mailbox. It does not record a person asking for your offer.

You can still care whether a stored message is the letter you approved. That check is a reading check. It is not a click count. Read the stored message if the seller will show it. Then ignore it as a tally of interest. Interest, for the buy, is a person moving toward the offer. A mailbox URL never leaves the mailbox. Sellers who need a number will have to get it from the offer address, and they will have to say so in the order.

If you have not paid, do not pay for mailbox access dressed as clicks. If you have paid and the click file is a set of URLs into a mailbox, the refund line is the next sentence. On the seller side, say mailbox when the URL reaches a stored message. Say click only when the address is the offer. One word for both is how a key gets invoiced as a decision. A careful seller would rather lose the order.

Does that mailbox URL prove the reader opted in?

No. That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

A URL into a mailbox does not remember a signup. It can authorize access to a message a stranger never asked to receive. The authorization will not make the stranger yours. It will not hand you a rank, and it will not set a price. Ask who is on the list. Ask which domain sends. Ask what the refund line says when a mailbox URL was sold as a click, or when the list is not the list you named.

Judge the vendor by those answers. Notes on safe solo ads sellers stay with the list, the sending domain, and which address a click actually opens. An authorized link to a stored message is not a tracked click. Pay only when the order says so in plain words. A URL that reaches a mailbox is not permission, and it is not the offer.