On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 09:21 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:06:24 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 08:31 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I just saw this article via Pocket in firefox, > > > https://www.vox.com/recode/23332959/email-tracking-privacy > > > and I wondered if that is an issue in fedora. It seems that in > > > order for such tracking to work, it has to have the cooperation > > > of > > > the operating system, or at least the mail client. And, I would > > > think that > > > open source mail clients don't allow that. Am I right? > > > > AFAIK it's not an operating system issue as such. > > > > Turn off read receipts in your MUA (I've always argued that they > > are > > basically useless). > > I don't find any switch to do that in claws-mail, so maybe it doesn't > have the ability to send return receipts.
Sounds likely. Evolution does support them but I turn them off. > > Also, don't open HTML mail but use the plaintext alternative where > > available. If you can't avoid HTML mail, many mail services have > > some > > tracking protection built-in. > > claws converts all messages to text, and it takes a plugin to view > html > mail. So, that probably meets this requirement. > Sure. > Phew, safe. > > Thanks. Cheers poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
