On Nov 18, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Charles Riggs wrote:
By the way, this trick does not work with Mail.app by default. The default setting in Mail is to NOT load images from a remote server. You have to either turn it on to always load them (a dumb idea), or you have to click a button in the email telling it to load them (a good idea, as that lets you selectively override it for emails that you want to see the images, such as advertisements from trusted sources)Where do you find this setting in Mail to make this change?
At least in v2 that comes with 10.4, if you go to the Prefs in Mail, then to Viewing, there is a check box for loading remote images in HTML. By default this is NOT checked. You can check it if you really want to, but there is no reason to, as any HTML message with remote images will display the local HTML portion and give you a button at that time to load the rest of the images.
Keep in mind, this has zero effect on messages that send the images with the message. Many spams do that because they use the image(s) as a way to bypass spam filtering (a bayesian logic word filter can't work on an email that all the words are made up of GIFs). In the case of these spams, the images are not being pulled from a remote server, so there is no reason not to load them right away (well, no security reason from the standpoint of alerting the spammer that you opened the email).
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