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[ILUG] Why these spam messages?

[ILUG] Why these spam messages?

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 09:46:04 IST 2009


Josh Glover wrote:
> 2009/6/1 Michael Watterson <watty at eircom.net>:
>
>   
>> This is all true even on Linux, with any arbitrary email client with display
>> of remote images enabled. which is NOT the same thing entirely as HTML
>> formated emails.
>>     
>
> Ah yes, I see the distinction now.
>
> I used Mutt for many years, which saved me from this sort of thing,
> but I think that Thunderbird will not request external image
> attachments until you click "Save As..." or some such. In HTML mode,
> you are likely hosed, of course.
>
>   
Yep, TB has a "allow remote images" for each message.
It can be overridden with prefs, to allow\disallow.

Frank



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