[MlMt] Proposal: conditional image loading by URL filtering

[Verdon Vaillancourt]

On 7 Nov 2017, at 10:18, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> On 7 Nov 2017, at 8:00, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 6 Nov 2017, at 18:13, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking you’d invoke the script once for each email, at 
>>> display time. Does that change things for you?
>>
>> That might work, but it would not be straightforward to implement. It 
>> would be easier to collect all remote URLs and provide them to the 
>> script in one go.
>
> That’d be fine too. Whatever’s easiest for you, really. And 
> actually it doesn’t have to be a script, either. How about a plist 
> file containing a list of rules?
>
>>> Hey, that’s great. It means I’ll have to deal with a long, ugly 
>>> regular expression, but I can tolerate that I think. I don’t think 
>>> I need a deny pattern, since deny is MailMate’s default.
>>
>> Ok, I'll consider it resolved for now ;)
>
> Thanks again!
> -sam

All nice sounding stuff, but please don’t slow down the entire app for 
things like this. I’m personally content to disable all remote 
resources, regardless of where they come from.

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