On 2018-08-08 05:18:21 +0000, Gilmeh Serda wrote: > And if you read email in blasted HTML, chances are they also have an > image that they serve to you on their "beautiful" page you receive, an > image whose link which may or may not be equally personalized, and more > often than not has its origin on the spammer's server. in which case they > also know *exactly when* you opened the email. If at all. > > Oh, and thank the developer of Outlook, and similarly badly constructed > programs, for that preview pane. It's really helpful for all the spammers.
I hate to defend Outlook (which I think is a really bad MUA), but it
gets this one right: Properly configured[1] it does NOT load inline images
from web-pages, so you can't be tracked simply by opening a mail.
hp
[1] Not sure whether this is the default or whether our admins
configured it that way.
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