Distrustful Link for confirming ones e-mail address

BenAtWork · May 16, 2026, 6:02pm

New user here; I registered and then got the confirmation link. It WOULD be helpful to get a link that is actually going to this website, as SHOWN, but instead is behind the link some "skrokt.mjt.lu..." suspicious one, which is also used for Phishing etc. to make a link appear valid while it masks some malicious intend.
Sooo, dear community moderators - while I DO understand that YOU might use that service to get a confirmation that the email was received, I would appreciate to get at least a hint that the link as SHOWN is not what will actually be happening (going to skrokt.mjt.lu), so that one can consciously decide whether to go indeed there, or type in the link as it is shown (https://community.unix.com/u/activate-account/.....)

Just a thought...
Regards

Ben

Neo · May 17, 2026, 1:44am

That mjt.lu link is Mailjet tracking/redirect infrastructure used by many sites for transactional email delivery. It ultimately redirects to the real community.unix.com activation URL.

The links are also part of our email delivery and anti-spam infrastructure, helping protect the forum against abuse, spam, and delivery issues.

If you are uncomfortable clicking tracked links, you can always manually copy and paste the displayed community.unix.com activation URL into your browser instead.

In any case, since this site does not use those default Mailjet tracking settings, I have now disabled click tracking in Mailjet, so those somewhat “distrustful-looking” mjt.lu links should disappear going forward.