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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