Lisa Wiser wrote: > 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?
You can't block web beacons in webmail. All webmail sites, regardless of who it is - as far as I know - have no way to block the display of external images linked from elsewhere on the WWW. SeaMonkey and Thunderbird do that easily. > Much as I complain, ... > > Can you provide a quick tutorial or point me to documentation that > helps? Sorry, I don't use Yahoo or AT&T services. I used to use Worldnet but dumped them in 2008 when they discontinued Usenet access. I've been using my own mail server and domain name ever since. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
