[Freeflyer]

Hi all,

I have recently turned off html in mail.app, as I discovered that it had been used to put my address on a couple of email junk lists. I didn't realise that this could be done, but am now wiser and have more junk mail.

However, there are a couple of mails I get occasionally that contain html that I would like to view. Is there a way to view them as a one off, rather than having to go into preferences and re-enable html viewing each time and then reset it again.

I was hoping there might be some sort of keystroke option to view the html on a one-off basis.

Any advice much appreciated.

Cheers,

Justin.

[rytc]

Originally posted by Freeflyer:
Hi all,

I have recently turned off html in mail.app, as I discovered that it had been used to put my address on a couple of email junk lists.

How may I ask did Mail showing embedded HTML send your address to a SPAM mailing lists? I'm just curious as I've never heard of that before?!

[gyc]

I'm guessing that some html spam contained images which allowed the spammers to track who had opened their spams.

[Freeflyer]

This is what the sysadmin at my DNS forwarding service told me when I enquired about some junk mail.

>
I suspect they are HTML files referencing images stored on a website
somewhere. Viewing the HTML file requests the images from the website and in
turn confirms that the e-mail address is active and gets it added to more spam
lists. This is just one of the many examples that HTML formatted e-mail is
bad. If at all possible, I would suggest that you disable HTML rendering for
your e-mail.
>

Interesting isn't it. I hadn't seen this before, but started getting mail for an address on my domain that I've never used. As all mail to my domain comes to my home address by default, I can only assume that this mail was generated as a guess at a working address on my domain, which anyone can get. By viewing the mail, it pulled the html images, confirmed the mail and added it to lots of lists. Unfortunately it was all porn.

I have been abled to bounce it at the dns level, but I've had a similar thing happen with my prime address, which I can't bounce in a similar way, as I need the address.

Hope that this is of some help to people, I know it was news to me. It brings me back to the original question that I'd like to be able to just view the occasional html mail from places I know, without the rigmarole or reconfiguring the app each time.

Cheers,

Justin.

[rytc]

Hmmm it really is amazing how ingenious the spammers are at getting people's email addresses!
Maybe one workaround would be to turn off the preview pane of mail and then just open the emails that you want and delete the spam. That way the spam is never opened and so images cannot be downloaded/tracked etc to your address. Easier in some ways than turning HTML on/off and in other ways a pain...

Just a thought

Cheers Ry