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I've been using mutt as my only email client for over 10 years now. You are right that a lot of emails are HTML only, but you can use something like w3m or lyn
by funzis 8y ago
I've been using mutt as my only email client for over 10 years now. You are right that a lot of emails are HTML only, but you can use something like w3m or lynx to render the HTML inside of mutt, and it is pretty rare that images in emails actually matter. (Mostly they are company logos or other non-useful crap...)
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoAnd even better: You avoid loading any external resources, which both avoids the data leak, and prevents the sender from modifying the content of the received email.
- lstamour 8y agoGmail relatively recently changed to intercept images and cache them all for you, preventing the leak. But then, this is Google we’re talking about. I’m sure there’s still a leak, maybe via AMP for Email. (Of course, hyperlinks are also often used for tracking.)
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoOnly images? So, fonts can still be used to leak and manipulate?
- lstamour 8y agoWell, no, custom web fonts generally aren’t supported by email clients, email within Gmail is sanitized by default. And I stand slightly corrected: by customizing email image URLs, you can apparently track the first open, but not user details (IP address, device, subsequent opens, etc.) https://customer.io/blog/gmail-loading-images.html https://customer.io/blog/gmail-loading-images.html
- swiley 8y agoWhen I use the web mail I always keep images off anyway.