Originally posted here by cobain_attacks
I noticed alot of the mail clients are now turning off embedded images by default for viewing emails.

I was curious if the problem was the images had emedded URL variables that gave away your email address?

IE: <img src="myimage.jpg?email=youremailaddress">

or is it just simply them being able to get your IP info once the image loads on their server?

I like having images displayed in my email client and I don't really care if my proxy IP is given away, but I would care more if they could harvest my email addy as being valid from displaying the image...

thanks all!
Do yourself a favor and just turn off HTML email.
HTML email offers little value compared to the potential problems it can cause. IMO

I have seen spam software packages that will dynamically generate small temporary images AT URL's assocaited with each message sent. Simply viewing the image in a SPAM message will both verify the email address was good for future mailings, and provide tracking information like success rate info to the SPAMMERS customers. BASTARDS!!