[MlMt] Mail Tracking

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 9 Feb 2017, at 16:19, Pedro Lobo wrote:

> I tend to mess around with a few mail clients to see what’s new and 
> around (and then come back to MM). One thing that I found in the 
> latest version of PostBox that I would love too see in MM (if 
> possible) is the inclusion of their [Anti-tracking 
> feature](https://www.postbox-inc.com/features).
>
> In theory, MM could display the same dialog it does now, not showing 
> images unless we say it’s ok, but also indicate if said email has 
> tracking pixel in it.

There's no standard definition of a tracking pixel. In fact, a logo 
could be the tracking pixel itself. It would only be revealed by the 
image URL and if you are really smart about it then that might also be 
very difficult to determine. But MailMate could certainly be clearer 
about why image blocking is important.

Related to this topic, a different kind of tracking is links within an 
email itself. There exists services which track if/when/where you click 
a link. I once added a warning to MailMate about this, but it's very 
rarely triggered, because I only added one tracking service. The warning 
looks like this:

![](cid:2F65BAD2-130E-4FD2-8F9F-3C034C193F8A at freron.com 
"PastedImage.png")

I don't really know if there is any interest in this type of warning 
though (I think I did it just to figure out how one could prevent such 
tracking).

-- 
Benny
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