Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
One more thing the webmail apps are not capable of... when HTML email from either malicious or regular mail uses web beacons to track you and your opening of the email - thus proving you're a live person and you opened the email - you cannot stop it. Most email clients like SM and TB allow you to *block* the loading of these beacons. Examine the source code of most spam and most business email; you will find code calling up 1 pixel by 1 pixel images, with coded parameters. You read in webmail, you've been tagged. This is especially good for the spammers, who will now send you much more of it.
Could I bother you for a teaching moment? How do I block such things? Besides turning off my HTML ability (which unfortunately I do frequently actually *need*) what can I do to make more email safer?
Much as I complain, the currrent spam catcher with AT&T/Yahoo is tolerable. No where near as great as what was in place while there was a WORLDNET, but tolerable. I go to my web server mail and do a check for "missed spam," mark it, and that sends it to the SPAM bucket. Plus it gives me a chance to look in the spam bucket and find that email that's been improperly flagged. But, I'd like to have even more protection if I can.
Can you provide a quick tutorial or point me to documentation that helps? Thanks Lisa _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
