Re: Html Email

["M. Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

On 2003.01.21 01:29 Matthew Ceroni wrote:
> Does Balsa have support for non-local image urls in html emails? (ie: 
> <img src="http:///someaddress/image.jpg";) and if not are there any plans 
> to include this feature.

Leaving that out was a design decision.

Lately there has been talk of enabling it, but only on explicit request. 
Non local URLs are often abused to provide feedback to spammers, by 
validating email addresses through loading images from cgi scripts, with 
the email address as a part of the query string.

Nearly 100% of email with non-local images are spam. Just think, is it 
worth having your email address confirmed in a spammers database, just to 
be able to view spam?

Melanie