Henry Story wrote:

> Sadly this feature can easily be misused by spammers. By sending html  
> mail with embeded pictures they can verify the existence of a user.


> It does not seem possible to read e-mail carefully in mozilla.[...] It 
> is not even possible to delete an e-mail without its content  first 
> being downloaded and interpreted.

Wrong. Disable message pne (view menu), doubleclick on msgs to read them.

Actually, you can view the source without opening them in the Mailnews 
viewer, which is an improvement over 4.x.

> I know there are a couple of bugs reported on this issue

(Yes, there is one.) Why are you posting, then???

If you only want to speed up the bugfixing, donate money 
<http://www.beonex.com>.

> and I would  not be surprised if this has generated some discussion 
> before on this  group allready.

Yes, but the only discussion was about when to fix this (sooner or 
later), more to a displease of most people involved.

On a related note, Scott, how about the bugs nominated for mozilla0.8 
and 0.9. Did you triage them for nsbeta1 already?

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