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Story: Do senders have a right to your inbox?

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 9 June 2004, 11:22 AM)

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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?

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