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Q: Whitelist available in Apple Mail for automatic Load Remote Content when this option is deselected in settings?

The 'Load Remote Content' is a great feature and I like to use it. Is there a way to make a whitelist of sender addresses for which remote content is loaded automatically, whilst remote content of addresses not on the whitelist are not automatically loaded?

 

Such whitelist will help me having the media content local and therefore the emails readable even after some time (media may have been deleted on server side by the sender after some time).

 

In addition such whitelist will be more productive, since I do not have to press for each email the button 'Load Remote Content'. Today many companies send their brand in an image, or add images to direct the reader to their Facebook/Twitter or whatever social media page. For these message I always have to press the button 'load remote content' since I do not know if other media content may have been added to the body of the email which the sender wants to share with me (eg photo).

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 4:40 AM

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Q: Whitelist available in Apple Mail for automatic Load Remote Content when this option is deselected in settings?

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  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Sep 19, 2016 4:42 AM in response to HGGNO
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    Sep 19, 2016 4:42 AM in response to HGGNO

    There isn't a whitelist. Send feedback to Apple if you want it changed.

    For myself, I don't really care to see anybody's images, so it works fine for me.

  • by HGGNO,

    HGGNO HGGNO Sep 19, 2016 4:47 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Sep 19, 2016 4:47 AM in response to Barney-15E

    The reason why I do not want to automatically load remote content is to not give feedback to spammers that my email addresses are active. Spammers usually work with a small media added to the email (usually 1 pixel image). When spammers see your email address active, they 1) continue spamming you 2) selling/giving your email addresses to other spammers.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Sep 19, 2016 5:01 AM in response to HGGNO
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    Sep 19, 2016 5:01 AM in response to HGGNO

    I understand remote image loading.

    That doesn't change the fact that what you want isn't available.

     

    I only stated I like not showing any company's embedded images in emails. No need to load crap I don't want to see in the first place.