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User profile for user: Gary P
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How to tell Mail never display images in the Junk folder?

I thought this would be obvious. Why does Mail sometimes allow messages moved to the Junk folder to continue to display images? Don't Apple's software designers know that every time one of these images loads, a spammer somewhere is getting confirmation of a valid email address? I want to know how to tell Mail to never, under any circumstances, load an image when displaying mail in the Junk folder. Why should I even have to ask this question?

2008 Mac Pro 8 Core 2.8 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.4), 10 GB RAM

Posted on Jan 26, 2009 1:09 PM

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User profile for user: Jeffrey Jones2
Jeffrey Jones2
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Jan 26, 2009 4:55 PM in response to Gary P

If a message is marked "Junk", Mail will not download images unless you tell it to. You will still see the image if it is included in the message, rather than having to be downloaded from a server. In that case there is no security issue.

You can also set your preferences to never automatically download images, even if the message is not marked junk. In Preferences > Viewing, deselect the “Display remote images in HTML messages” checkbox.

If you are seeing an image in a flagged Junk message, and you are sure the image is not an attachment, then your Mail configuration is not behaving normally.
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User profile for user: Gary P
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Jan 26, 2009 5:49 PM in response to Jeffrey Jones2

The problem is that messages dragged to the Junk folder do not automatically get marked Junk, like messages intercepted by Apple's Junk mail filter. They are in the Junk folder because I dragged them there. But they do not have the Junk Mail icon. And you can't mark a message as Junk without clicking on it. Looks like interface failure to me.
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How to tell Mail never display images in the Junk folder?

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