Re: Blocking web bugs

[Nigel L]

Jay Garcia wrote:

On 08.06.02 12:15, Jonas Jørgensen Replied As Follows:

--- Original Message ---

  

    
*viewing* an HTML message 
which contains an <img src=""http://some.web.server/myimage.gif"> tag. 
That *will* cause the mail application to access port 80 in order to 
retrieve the image.
    

with all the HTML SPAM nowadays.
Glad I operate my own mail server with filters ...

  

a moot point shortly as the feature "View
Message Body As ....." --> "Original HTML", "Simple HTML", "Plain Text"
will be included hopefully in the next 1.01alpha. The feature has been
included in the nightlies for weeks now and works quite well. If you
want to install Beonex you can also use the feature as well.
      

That is a way to solve this problem, yes. See also 
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28327>.

/Jonas
    

Only now do I realize that those non-displayed image marks in my HTML mail are WebWasher 3.2 b3 removing web bugs, as per my preferences setting for the app.   :-)     Nigel L