Re: HTML email "bug", of sorts.

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:17:25AM -0400, Alex Prestin wrote:
> So, anyone have any idea of how to deal with this latest little spammer
> toy?  Is there any effective way to filter out web bugs without adversely
> affecting the delivery intact of legitimate messages?  Could software
> change to at least warn viewers that this HTML viewer is accessing offsite
> content?  Is it worth doing?

This is a client problem that needs to be supported there. For example,
Kmail - the KDE Mailer - has a "download remote URLs" checkbox. Simply
turning that off stops HTML mail messages from having things like <img> tags
being activated.

Under Outlook, this isn't possible.

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Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417