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(a)gmail.com> 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