On 9 Feb 2017, at 16:19, Pedro Lobo wrote:
I tend to mess around with a few mail clients to see what’s new and
around (and then come back to MM). One thing that I found in the
latest version of PostBox that I would love too see in MM (if
possible) is the inclusion of their [Anti-tracking
feature](https://www.postbox-inc.com/features).
In theory, MM could display the same dialog it does now, not showing
images unless we say it’s ok, but also indicate if said email has
tracking pixel in it.
There's no standard definition of a tracking pixel. In fact, a logo
could be the tracking pixel itself. It would only be revealed by the
image URL and if you are really smart about it then that might also be
very difficult to determine. But MailMate could certainly be clearer
about why image blocking is important.
Related to this topic, a different kind of tracking is links within an
email itself. There exists services which track if/when/where you click
a link. I once added a warning to MailMate about this, but it's very
rarely triggered, because I only added one tracking service. The warning
looks like this:
I don't really know if there is any interest in this type of warning
though (I think I did it just to figure out how one could prevent such
tracking).
--
Benny
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