Email experiments: filtering out external images
7 days ago
- #automation
- #privacy
- Email clients often have a 'show external images' option due to privacy concerns.
- Manually sent emails by real humans typically do not include externally loaded images.
- Automated emails often use external images, which can be tracked by remote servers.
- A sieve rule can filter automated emails by checking for external image links in the body.
- The filter has been effective, reducing inbox volume and highlighting important emails.
- Adding a rule to exclude contacts from this filter is a suggested next step.