[ILUG] sanitize/disable image loading

[Declan Grady]

On Thursday 15 April 2004 13:01, ( Admin ) bryan wrote:
> It occurs to me that a large amount of Spam gets it's feedback when
> someone loads an
> email and it contains an external image link.
>
> Is there any popular way to disable this is ? For example here is what
> Thunderbird
> does when you mark a message as Spam ....
> snip=
> <A href=3D"http://fork.pasede.com/gp/default.asp?ID=3D10045"><IMG
> alt=3D"Here" hspace=3D0 src=3D"http://lugging.haoltal.com/hi.gif"
> align=3Dbaseline border=3D0></A>
> =snip

Using MailScanner & Spamassassin, you can choose to convert html to text for 
spams, so they dont autoload images... as well as disabling "dangerous html" 
in emails.

Worth a look.
Declan

> I can't see any immediate reference to this in the
> spamassassin/sanitizer documentation .
>
> I don't think banning html messages altogether would please my users.
>
> --B