Yes correct Bill. If I mouse-over a link it will typically be a long sequence of digits which is coded to identify me to the spammer when I load that image. No way around this—if you load the image you will verify to the spammer your address as valid. No behavior of any mail client nor anti-malware effort can change this.
I have searched for the subject of the image (if a description is given in the spam mail) and sometimes been able to view it independent of the spam mail link with a web browser. Dave > On Jun 4, 2018, at 7:35 AM, Bill Cole > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4 Jun 2018, at 9:37, Alexandru Nedelcu wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> One thing I miss in Mailmate vs webmail is the ability to show images >> without leaking my IP or other identifying info — something that GMail or >> FastMail are able to do when using their clients. > > You are over-crediting that functionality. > > A webmail provider that proxies images may "protect" you from the sender > discovering your IP address (a trivial piece of information that in most > cases isn't worth collecting) but you cannot depend on that. It DOES NOT > protect you from email address verification and in some cases has been > intentionally designed to avoid disrupting "open tracking" by senders. It's > an anti-malware and UI tactic, not part of a privacy strategy. > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
