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Re: rendering HTML: how to disable
From: |
Bernardo |
Subject: |
Re: rendering HTML: how to disable |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:22:58 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
An old problem revisited
>>> LinkedIn etc) in their (HTML formatted) email
>>> include URLs which i suspect are used to track users
>>> when opening them
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext"))
>
> ah, much better, thanks
>
>>
>> Otherwise doesn't it work just by not following the
>> URLs?
>
> AFAICT the page pointed by URL is loaded as soon as soon as the message
> is opened, to the rejoicing of spammers
i still have an HTML formatted email which when opened makes connections
on the web; the email headers, among other things show this:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
as it happens, i'm permanently running a home brewed (quick 'n' dirty)
script which monitors TCP connections, this is what it shows when
the offending email is viewed:
18:32:52 SYN 68.232.35.48:80 4434478
18:32:53 ESTABL 68.232.35.48:80
18:32:53 ESTABL 59.100.127.135:80
18:32:53 ------ 68.232.35.48:80
18:32:55 SYN 68.232.35.48:80 4434483
18:32:55 ESTABL 68.232.35.48:80
18:32:56 ------ 68.232.35.48:80
18:33:01 ESTABL 59.100.127.135:80
the Gnus variable mm-discouraged-alternatives value is:
mm-discouraged-alternatives is a variable defined in `mm-decode.el'.
Its value is ("text/html" "text/richtext" "image/.*")
Original value was nil
If i open another email message and go back to the offending one, the
TCP connections are established again.
But that's not all, i've this time, for a good measure, fired up
Wireshark and on opening the message it showed a two dozen DNS queries
(which go over UDP) for the domains that had "marketing" and "images" in
their name.
Guess just setting 'mm-discouraged-alternatives' is required but not
sufficient for preventing such behaviour. Any other ways from within
Gnus this could be prevented?
"GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of
2015-03-08 on deb"
"Gnus v5.13"
--
Rgds, Bernardo
- Re: rendering HTML: how to disable,
Bernardo <=