GNU bug report logs - #15882
24.3.50; gnus does not suppress email tracking

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 15882 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15882: 24.3.50; gnus does not suppress email tracking
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:36:10 -0800

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> There are many methods to track html emails from remote side. Most of
> them do not work when reading emails with gnus, because the shr renderer
> does not support javascript or css or suchalike.
>
> However, svg inline with remote images are not detected by shr. You can
> test this when sending yourself an email from the webpage
> <https://emailprivacytester.com/>, and read that email with gnus.

I was unable to test this, because our virus scanner eviscerated the
message.  Could you forward a complete message from the privacy tester,
or just a simple test case that shows the SVG problem?

Is the problem that the imagemagick library fetches (sub-)images from
embedded SVG images or something?

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