[MlMt] Mail Tracking

[Pedro Lobo]

Great question Robert.

I’ve never really looked into how Postbox is doing it. I suppose they 
have a blacklist of URLs (similar to what Benny implemented for tracking 
links, even though he just put 1 URL in). MM could also make an educated 
guess as to the size of the pixel and if smaller that said size, then 
it’s probably used for tracking.

Having said that, I wouldn’t expect MM to bypass the tracking image if 
the user has clicked load once. If it’s clearly stated (Postbox has a 
different color in the banner) that there may be a tracking pixel and 
the user still loads the image, then the fault lies with the user I 
guess.

Cheers,
Pedro Lobo
On 9 Feb 2017, at 17:42, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> Just to clarify. Are you talking about additional checking for 
> tracking images when the setting “Image blocking” is off, right? 
> Or do you mean to check the image size always, assuming that images 
> smaller than certain size are only for tracking and report not only 
> the count of blocked external references but also a count of suspected 
> trackers? Would you then expect the “Load once” function to have 
> an option to skip the tracking images when fetching images?
>
> Robert
>
> On 9 Feb 2017, at 16:19, Pedro Lobo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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 
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