Re: email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?

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On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 09:21 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> 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.

Sounds likely. Evolution does support them but I turn them off.

> > 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.
> 

Sure.

> Phew, safe.  
> 
> Thanks.

Cheers

poc
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