Turn off preview pane in OS X Mail app?
Mark
In Entourage, you can turn off the preview pane while you view your e-mail
headers. When you do this, Entourage lets you click headers while at the same
time not sending outbound traffic.
But in Mail, I see no similar option. You can drag the dividing bar down to
the bottom, giving the same appearance, but: Does anyone know if that's
really disabling the download? Or is it just hiding it...
I ask because I wonder about the worth of the "bounce to sender" feature. I
understand spammers can detect if an e-mail was really delivered by sending
outbound data when you view it.
tristero
Mark wrote:
> But in Mail, I see no similar option.
Double-click anywhere in the slider bar. This will toggle the preview
pane.
> You can drag the dividing bar down to
> the bottom, giving the same appearance, but: Does anyone know if that's
> really disabling the download?
This should be the same as disabling the preview pane by
double-clicking as described above.
BreadW...@fractious.net
> System is OS X.2.6
>
> In Entourage, you can turn off the preview pane while you view your
> e-mail headers. When you do this, Entourage lets you click headers
> while at the same time not sending outbound traffic.
A mail client should never send outbound traffic except
for actual outgoing mail. Any rendering of externally
sourced data (ie. HTML IMG tags with external src references)
is something that at a minimum ought to be turned off,
(if not actually removed from the programs, IMO).
> But in Mail, I see no similar option. You can drag the dividing bar
> down to the bottom, giving the same appearance, but: Does anyone
> know if that's really disabling the download? Or is it just hiding
> it...
Go to Preferences->Viewing and uncheck the box labeled
"Display images end embedded objects in HTML messages"
Apple leaves that turned on by default, but, then,
Apple themselves have abused it by sending web-bugged
HTML messages. (in particular, when they tried to
get folks to pay up for .mac).
> I ask because I wonder about the worth of the "bounce to sender"
> feature. I understand spammers can detect if an e-mail was really
> delivered by sending outbound data when you view it.
It's worthless. Mail.app knows nothing for certain
about the sender. All Mail.app knows about (or any
normal mail client) is the _header_ data - which
can all be forged (except what your mail transport
layer added). The only bounce that's ever worth
anything is a bounce that takes place upstream well
before Mail.app gets at your message.
Don't use the Bounce feature. Ever. At best, it'll
just send a message to an invalid address. Worse,
it'll send confirmation to a spammer that you got his
mail. And worst of all, the spammer may have forged
an innocent bystander's e-mail address and when you
use that idiotic bounce function, you are then participating
in the abuse of another innocent.
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