On 5/9/22 15:58, Sam Birch wrote:
Henry,

I’m not sure why all this talk about previewing attachments. As Randall said, his question has nothing to do with attachments. Instead, it’s about <IMG> tags in HTML emails.

And as Randy said, the reason why MailMate can’t “strictly block” 1-pixel images is that, in many cases, /MailMate has no way to know the size of the image until it fetches it from the remote server./

For example, here’s an <IMG> tag from spam message I recently received (re-wrapped for clarity, and domain changed to avoid being tagged as spam):

|<img src="http://www.not-the-original-dom.ain/cljo8bq86/Cw4ear2u 2QPT6WIi5q6Mr2gNDEIIpk_24HKoK0Q7ulY/fSlEIVCxnTqw7304Z8k5-7DeoB8B TUDm4NmMX28zpyXKVfWsVIjfNzFFKOiXLw399vfpzvuSHfoXwZGLWvq6TfyuQPAJ OvdL7LOQ_tKLpSvPVXO1xJtHDimWEa5bpThzzWOgItSd6XMoWJdv7yKnLtzwcx3m -zrp7icAZ_1CAcg”> |

Can you tell that this is a 1-pixel image?

Neither can MailMate.

Hope this helps,
-sam

You can't tell its size, but you can tell that it's either 'personalised' and the object 'path' tells the server that it's you that downloaded it, or it's an image in a huge collection ( :-) ). Can't think of any other reason for such an object 'path' for an img tag.

David



On 9 May 2022, at 10:00, Henry Seiden wrote:

    Randall,

    This seems like a good one for a feature request. SFAIK, this
    condition has been the case (the one pixel image)for awhile in the
    downloads list layout for the attachments window section. It is
    ultra compact.

    Try this to view an attachment from Mailmate to open a window in
    another app fairly quickly, as a workaround:

      * Open an attachment in an email by selecting it, with CTL held down.
      * Select the option in the drop down window, “Open with Preview
        (default)” or choose any other app there you’d like (e.g., Word
        or Pages for a document). There is probably a setting to
        directly select Preview, the default but I don’t know it.
      * You can close or save from there.
      * I tried this and the full-size version of the attachment seems
        to open in Preview for me.

    To be honest, it hasn’t proven that much of a barrier for me,
    however. But we’re just kicking it around in this group. Thanks for
    the detail. Benny usually monitors this group so he can get some
    idea of interest and make comments.

    Other apps (Mail, Outlook) provide a means to view attachments in a
    larger form as part of the message view (still in reduced format
    than a page view), but still readable. The layout used doesn’t do
    this. So do you think a new layout with that functionality is the
    answer?

    Respectfully,

    Henry Seiden

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    On 7 May 2022, at 22:05, Randall Gellens wrote:

        On 7 May 2022, at 7:53, Henry Seiden wrote:

            Hello Randall,

            I use the download feature all the time to get single images
            (not Download All) and get the full item in my Downloads
            folder where it was set. Thinking that was the default, but
            not sure).

            Further thoughts:

             1. Could it be that your download isn’t being
                directed/specified to the proper place? Maybe not since
                the 1px file link is there.
             2. Does a restart of the app or the machine make a difference

            MM Preferences>Default Downloads Folder>select/specify the
            folder location (name/location), including a sub-folder.
            Note that in the Menu page there is a checkbox to “Insert
            file link when removing an attachment.” That may have
            something to do with what you see. Mine is checked by default.

            Have a go at those settings.

            My version is r5895, but I think those settings are the same
            in the release version.

        Hi Henry,

        I'm not trying to download attachments (I access attachments via
        their icon). I'm talking about the "Download All" and "Download"
        buttons that appear when a message contains embedded images.
        Some messages contain many embedded images and it isn't possible
        to know which ones I want to see. I appreciate that MailMate
        categorizes embedded images as either "blocked" or "strictly
        blocked," but I was hoping that 1-pixel images (which are
        obviously trackers/beacons) were categorized as "strictly
        blocked" and that "Download" (versus "Download All") wouldn't
        download them.

        --Randall

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