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.
When you are in the compose window the options tab at the top has a
check box for return receipts.
David
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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