On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:38:49 -0500 Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

ME> More importantly, it is used
ME> by spammers to verify which addresses in their database are "live", so
ME> that they can send more junk mail and/or sell your address. PocoMail
ME> can get around this by simply disallowing any external HTTP requests
ME> when reading messages - just depress the Image Download toggle button
ME> (on top of the preview pane), or go to E-mail menu and uncheck
ME> Download Message Images, to stop any outgoing connections.

Mahogany also has such option - it is called "Enable showing external
images", which is unselected by default IIRC.

Regards,
Nerijus



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