141774 - Opening connections from Mail/News messages should be optional

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28327

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[dhahn]

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Spam emails often contain pictures (or other content) that will be fetched from
a remote server, once the Mail is opened. This eats bandwith and gives the
spammer a feedback that the mail was recieved - a behaviour that is not desirable.

While it is possible to work around this (by requiring confirmation for ALL
picture requests), it would be better to have an option that disallows any
outgoing connections to be initiated by mail/news messages.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

Currently there's a workaround in the trunk nightlys by selecting "view Message
Body As" ->simple text.

but there's another bug open, so marking dup of that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28327 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup