flyguy wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
flyguy wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
flyguy wrote:
I have my email set to "Block images and other content from remote
sources". That works well; however, if I "Forward" the email, the
remote content is loaded. Is there any way to prevent that from
happening?
Forward as text-only.
My Forward button offers only Inline or Attachment - is there another
way to do the Forward?
Also, I usually want to preserve the email's links so the person I'm
sending it to can obtain the remote content if they wish to do so.
"Inline" is what I meant.
In the case of an HTML message, the links are revealed, including web
bugs and the like. Try it and see.
I tried the Inline, which is how I normally send emails, but its message
body looks the same as what I see when I read the email, and all the
html is still there. No remote content in either case, of course, since
I opened the Internet connection before forwarding.
What would I see if there is a web bug? I doubt the ones I experimented
with had any.
I hadn't thought about how the web bug would still be active and refer
to me. Is there any way to inhibit them so I can forward the email?
If you're forwarding as plain text ("Inline"), the links become visible.
For example, if I forward a message I just got from a political
campaign, one paragraph looks like this:
We are delighted to report that tomorrow evening's
debate will be live-streamed on the internet,
commencing at 7:30pm. You will be able to watch
the live feed at: http://www.pcntv.com/
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=alphabet_soup>.
But the original HTML mail looks like this:
We are delighted to report that tomorrow evening's
debate will be live-streamed on the internet,
commencing at 7:30pm. You will be able to watch
the live feed at: http://www.pcntv.com/.
You see, the link to
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=alphabet_soup> is
displayed in the HTML as <http://www.pcntv.com/> and it eventually takes
you there, but only after the intermediate step of noting down who
visited it based on the user ID (which I've replaced with "alphabet_soup").
When I forward messages like this, I comb through them for links with my
ID number and remove them, because (as it happens) I want to continue
receiving them, and I don't want someone three or four links down the
forwarding chain unsubscribing me in an attempt to unsubscribe himself.
More to your point, I have a piece of true spam which contains the
following code (as above, I've munged the code number as
"code_number_here"):
<strong><img name=3D"ACCOUNT.IMAGE.17" border=3D"=
0" contenteditable=3D"false" alt=3D"Transparent GIF" src=3D"http://ih.const=
antcontact.com/fs073/code_number_here/img/17.gif"
/></strong> &=
nbsp; <strong><em>Insight&n=
bsp;for Global Market Leaders</em></strong>
This displays in HTML as simply
Transparent GIF Insight for Global Market
because I have SeaMonkey set not to load remote content, so it displays
the ALT text (stupid of them to include it, but whatever). If I forward
the message inline, I get:
*Transparent GIF* */Insight for Global Market/*
As you can see, the link to the remote content is lost/deleted, and your
recipient will see only the ALT text. It looks like I misspoke when I
said web bugs would show as links. In fact, only true links show as links.
HTH
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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