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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Mail insecurity
Date: 11 Jan 2015 21:49:29 GMT
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On 2015-01-11, android <here@there.was> wrote:
> In article <m8ul0r$kal$1@news.datemas.de>,
>  Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-01-11 19:56:20 +0000, android said:
>> 
>> > In article <m8uk37$imf$1@news.datemas.de>,
>> >  Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> If what you're saying is that when you open an email in html format and
>> >> display the images contained within it, that you are them starting a
>> >> conversation with a remote server that will then know that you read the
>> >> email and a few unimportant details about the system from which you
>> >> read it, that's correct.
>> > 
>> > That wasn't that hard to admit, was it? :-))
>> 
>> What did I "admit" that I hadn't already said.
>> 
>> "Until then your mail app sends out receipts on all the mails you've kept
>> inside the Mail database... Cute! :-p"
>> 
>> "all the mails": wrong.
>
> All the mails that were tagged... Yes.

No, all of the mails that were *searched* for and *previewed* that
contained web bug images. In other words, not many at all, and nowhere
near "all the mails you've kept inside the Mail database".  You're
wrong, and your troll is lame.
 
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