On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:06:24 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 08:31 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > Hi, > > I just saw this article via Pocket in firefox, > > https://www.vox.com/recode/23332959/email-tracking-privacy > > and I wondered if that is an issue in fedora. It seems that in > > order for such tracking to work, it has to have the cooperation of > > the operating system, or at least the mail client. And, I would > > think that > > open source mail clients don't allow that. Am I right? > > AFAIK it's not an operating system issue as such. > > Turn off read receipts in your MUA (I've always argued that they are > basically useless). I don't find any switch to do that in claws-mail, so maybe it doesn't have the ability to send return receipts. > Also, don't open HTML mail but use the plaintext alternative where > available. If you can't avoid HTML mail, many mail services have some > tracking protection built-in. claws converts all messages to text, and it takes a plugin to view html mail. So, that probably meets this requirement. Phew, safe. Thanks. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
