[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[JF Mezei]

Paul Sture wrote:

> Although I have remote images disabled in Apple Mail, one of those 
> supermarkets does manage to send me a graphical display by means of 
> multiple attachments.
> 
> I haven't yet worked out what happened, but shortly after viewing one of 
> those emails, my firewall chalked up a load of attempts by that very 
> same supermarket to access port 80 on my laptop. Coincidence, I think 
> not.


That is why I want an email client that has a "view source" function.
Not sure if the Mail.App has it. That is why I use Thunderbird.
Thunkderbird is easrier to configure to disable all the crap, whereas
Mail.App seems to be "glitz must be ON" type of application which I
don't trust.