The "View HTML" banner when reading a message now displays full html (images) when engaged
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:27 am
Regarding this update:
- The "View HTML" banner when reading a message now displays full html (images) when engaged; this removes the need to double-click twice (except when the message is evaluated as Junk)
First, I'm not sure of my facts - so put me right if I'm on the wrong track.
One of the things that I liked about this was that there was a two-stage process to viewing email content.
I view messages I'm not sure about initially as plain text. Most of the time that allows me to identify unwanted messages. However, often, messages viewed as plain text appear completely empty, so I double-click that View HTML banner once, hoping that the sender still can't determine whether I've viewed their email or not. 999 times out of 1000 that is sufficient for me to determine whether I want this email.
What concerns me now is that this View HTML now goes and fetches images too, which I think (I may be wrong here!) is a way for the sender to identify who's looked at their email.
Some image links are like:
https://assets.jobserve.com/image=s/Email/jobservelogo140.gif
others though are very much more complex with a whole series of apparently meaningless characters within the link which I'm guessing is a way for them to identify which emails have been viewed.
Am I being paranoid?!
So might it be an idea to allow a choice of one or two double-clicks to reveal images somewhere in the POP Peeper options or PPTweaker (I haven't found one)?
- The "View HTML" banner when reading a message now displays full html (images) when engaged; this removes the need to double-click twice (except when the message is evaluated as Junk)
First, I'm not sure of my facts - so put me right if I'm on the wrong track.
One of the things that I liked about this was that there was a two-stage process to viewing email content.
I view messages I'm not sure about initially as plain text. Most of the time that allows me to identify unwanted messages. However, often, messages viewed as plain text appear completely empty, so I double-click that View HTML banner once, hoping that the sender still can't determine whether I've viewed their email or not. 999 times out of 1000 that is sufficient for me to determine whether I want this email.
What concerns me now is that this View HTML now goes and fetches images too, which I think (I may be wrong here!) is a way for the sender to identify who's looked at their email.
Some image links are like:
https://assets.jobserve.com/image=s/Email/jobservelogo140.gif
others though are very much more complex with a whole series of apparently meaningless characters within the link which I'm guessing is a way for them to identify which emails have been viewed.
Am I being paranoid?!
So might it be an idea to allow a choice of one or two double-clicks to reveal images somewhere in the POP Peeper options or PPTweaker (I haven't found one)?