* Rob Reid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote this on 10 06, 02 at 02:00: > Hi, > > At 11:58 PM EDT on October 5 Mike Leone sent off: > > * Rob Reid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote this on 10 05, 02 at 22:35: > > > Danger, Will Robinson! ;-) > > > > > > At 8:21 AM EDT on October 5 Viktor Lakics sent off: > > > > I have a crazy idea, I wanted to ask you about: Has anyone ever > > > > tried to work out how to autoview graphics inside mutt? > > > > > > You might know this already, but a common spammer tactic is to include images > > > in their html mails like <img > > > src="http://spam.server.com/Viktor_actually_read_this_spam.gif";> that let > > > them know that you actually read their spam, *if* you read the message in a > > > graphical browser. From then on you can count on that address receiving the > > > GSSSP (Gross Solar System Spam Product). > > > > Most times, yes. But the majority of people actually don't use console based > > mailers, but graphical ones. And the graphical ones usually show the HTML > > directly, that is, they don't spawn a browser. Think of Outlook or Eudora. > > Why does that matter? Each web bug is unique, so any request for it, from > anywhere, anything, or anyone, still dooms the address the bug refers to.
Because browser programs can (usually) be told to not load images in web pages; embedded browser windows, such as in Outlook and Eudora, don't have such options (I think - I haven't tested to see whether they would honor the full browser config). > > More annoying are the 1x1 pixel images that you can't even see, that do the > > same thing. I believe the term is "web bug". > > I wasn't excluding them. Personally, I like the 1x1s better than the garish, > bandwidth hogging, CPU killing, animated gifs. > > ObMutt: Would a macro that > 1. autoviews/mailcap displays stuff from trusted senders* > or > 2. defangs (temporarily, in a display filter way, since untrusted innocents > are included) stuff from everyone else > > necessarily require mutt to understand if statements? > > * possibly approximated by the aliases file, although you can't trust anyone > using untrusted software, no matter how nice they are. > -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348
msg31623/pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
![http://spam.server.com/Viktor_actually_read_this_spam.gif"](http://spam.server.com/Viktor_actually_read_this_spam.gif"){kind=link}