On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:41 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > > On 2018-08-08 05:18:21 +0000, Gilmeh Serda wrote: > > And if you read email in blasted HTML, chances are they also have an > > image that they serve to you on their "beautiful" page you receive, an > > image whose link which may or may not be equally personalized, and more > > often than not has its origin on the spammer's server. in which case they > > also know *exactly when* you opened the email. If at all. > > > > Oh, and thank the developer of Outlook, and similarly badly constructed > > programs, for that preview pane. It's really helpful for all the spammers. > > I hate to defend Outlook (which I think is a really bad MUA), but it > gets this one right: Properly configured[1] it does NOT load inline images > from web-pages, so you can't be tracked simply by opening a mail. > > hp > > [1] Not sure whether this is the default or whether our admins > configured it that way.
Same for Gmail, I believe. It doesn't show the external images unless you explicitly click something to load them. I would expect any competent MUA of at least the past decade to do the same. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
