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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= <jkt@flaska.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:54 2018
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On Saturday, 16 May 2015 01:18:56 CEST, Neil Hunsperger wrote:
> * I've viewed an offer letter 10 times and thus may be 
> interested enough to be squeezed for more money.
> * I was paging through last week's email to find something and 
> my MUA downloads external images from 
> "politically-sensitive-topic.org" while I'm now travelling 
> overseas in a country where that topic is illegal.
> * I allowed downloading linked images from my desktop MUA and 
> now my other devices respect that setting, exposing information 
> on the complete set of MUA software I use and the region I'm 
> currently in.

Yes, these are all possible scenarios; I was simplifying stuff a bit. In 
spite of these, I think that there is some merit in having an opt-in basis 
for making this per-message settings permanent, and making this work across 
different MUAs sounds reasonable to me.

Trojita is periodically getting requests for making it load everything 
automatically. We are not going to do that, and we're also still opposing 
even a settings option for users to opt-in into that very insecure 
behavior. I hope that remembering these settings on a per-message basis is 
a reasonable middle ground.

The alternative to that is implementing this feature with a MUA-specific 
flag, which sounds like a worst scenario to me.

Are some other client developers interested in this?

With kind regards,
Jan

-- 
Trojit?, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/

