Re: Blocking web bugs

[Ben Bucksch]

Jay Garcia wrote:

>Ok, you still do not understand. Email does NOT access port 80, only
>port 110 (pop3). You can verify this by sending yourself an html
>formatted email and observe the reception via a packet sniffer. At no
>time is port 80 in the picture, only the POP3 or IMAP ports 110 or 143.
>
HTML-Email *can* access port 80, if it embeds images on an http server 
(<img src="http://sender/pic.gif";>), uses iframes, JS or whatever other 
means. Bug 28327.