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2014-02-10 18:45:17 +0300
I think kontact/kmail solves this problem very elegant. Per default the user sees the plain text email. If it is a html mail, theres a little link on the top to activate the html view. When html is activated there is another link to download pictures.
Jolla could adapt this and add two buttons on the top (or use the pulley-menu): "Allow html once" and "allow html always". The same with the picture download. So the default is "html off" but everyone could simply change it to "html always on" and "pictures always on".
Therefore the ones who want to see the pictures always just need to press two buttons once at first use. All others who prefer a more privacy-safe setting could enable html/pictures for specific messages. Sometimes it might be useful to see some pictures in mails ;)
External ressources at all instead of only images please.
https://emailprivacytester.com/ goes wild, when I open an email in the jolla email app.
Kondou ( 2013-12-27 16:50:55 +0300 )editI would also like to be able to view emails in text mode without starting the html render
till ( 2013-12-28 13:37:51 +0300 )editPlaintext(send and view) mode is a must-have feature for any mail client IMHO.
t4k1t ( 2013-12-28 13:46:16 +0300 )editI accidentially filed a duplicate, with some more ideas: https://together.jolla.com/question/11166/mail-app-dont-load-external-content-by-default/#post-id-11639
MMx ( 2014-01-07 21:50:29 +0300 )editA good idea by user Milhouse from the duplicate question https://together.jolla.com/question/11166/mail-app-dont-load-external-content-by-default/#post-id-11639 added here:
Rather than allowing this to be enabled by default, include an option allowing external content from senders that you consider to be "safe" (ie. "Always show content from this sender"). There's also a case for automatically allowing content from senders in your contacts.
Any sender not in your contacts, or that you haven't previously flagged as "safe", shouldn't have their remote content shown by default.
Juuso ( 2014-01-08 09:44:39 +0300 )editI'd love to see this roadmapped. As stated by @00prometheus below, this keeps users from using the email app completely, or at least from using it as they normally would. Email clients should take care not to support spammers wherever possible. Don't know the source code, but I think it shouldn't be too complicated to replace all external references by internal dummy references.
tokaru ( 2014-04-29 15:18:18 +0300 )editHere are the results from emailprivacytester: https://emailprivacytester.com/b4032a1c589b327b
Note that plenty of information is exposed. MUA, IP, OS, etc. There's also the fact that flash is being loaded, though I'm not sure if it's run, hopefully not.
WhyNotHugo ( 2014-05-01 18:56:06 +0300 )edit