Prevent Auto loading of remote content embedded images in Spam folder
It would be useful to enable an auto option for loading of remote content embedded images for all emails except those in the Spam folder. I'd like to keep it Auto everywhere else. If it’s in Spam we need to be more careful, so picking up the same settings as an email which passed spam checking doesn’t seem right.
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MountainMan commented
This would be a great feature and already present in a lot of other products. I was kinda surprised this wasn't already something offered. Should be pretty simple to add, so please consider it in the future.
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tunguf commented
Please disable automatic loading of remote images in the SPAM folder.
It makes no sense that it shows images from spam/porn/phishing-attempts/whatever, and should be disabledOr at least give the option to disable it for the spam folder next to the "Auto show remote images" option in settings.
But it should not be enabled by default.Who knows what kinds of tricks spamsenders use to identify that you opened the email etc. with their remote images.. (methods that Proton are not thinking of)
It's not always just a simple url identifier like domain.com/image.jpg?userid=qmp123mx
They can easily hide the tracking in a unique filename itself and even mask it as a folder with mod_rewrite, like so:
domain.com/folders/qmp123mx/image.jpg -
tunguf commented
This is critical and should be implemented ASAP!
Who knows what kinds of tricks spamsenders use to identify that you opened the email etc. with their remote images..
It's not always just a simple domain.com/image.jpg?=userid=qmp123mx url.
They can easily hide the tracking in a unique filename itself and even mask it as a folder with mod_rewrite
For example: domain.com/images/qmp123mx/image.jpg -
Josiah Redding commented
I think this is just a common sense measure and I'm kind of surprised it's not already implemented ... even if we have "auto load images" turned on for the general setting, there should be an assumption that remote content should not be loaded for SPAM automatically until it is moved to the inbox/marked 'not spam'.
This could reduce future SPAM and protect privacy.