Toolkit
Story: Do senders have a right to your inbox?
You can set up most personal firewalls (including the free ones) to only allow your email client access to your mail server(s) or certain ports.
This should block any web beacons, although will also mean many of your HTML emails will display with large spaces and unloaded emails.
Convenience vs security/privacy?
Full Talkback thread
Story: Do senders have a right to your inbox?
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Won't the tracking get a hit immediately if the re... Jim Windram -
John has a good point, my IM is left logged in all... David Wright -
Although I don't like the thought of this at all,... Jacko -
You can set up most personal firewalls (including... Anonymous -
I believe that the use of e-mail tracking is legit... Anonymous -
Of course this is an invasion. Hence the fact I no... Jim -
Like most things, yes and no. I am an admin Evil-... Anonymous -
The service only provides the location of the dial... Anonymous -
I use msgtag and love it. I want to know if my mai... Anonymous

