On 2021-02-09, Adrian Caspersz  wrote:
> On 08/02/2021 19:45, Jim Jackson wrote:
>> On 2021-02-08, Adrian Caspersz  wrote:
>>>
>>> Even this program (thunderbird) has that. If you run it, you will notice
>>> T&C's to be agreed.
>>
>> Just fired up thunderbird for the first time on Linux desktop and
>> there were no T&C's to be confirmed.
>>
>
> When it crashes for the first time, you'll be be asked to confirm if you
> would like to submit developer logs.

You are at least asked! I think Firefox does the same.

I noticed that thunderbird (v68) displays

 
https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=en-US&version=68.11.0&cha
nnel=default&os=Linux&buildid=20200721201500

which of course gives them a heads up to the fact you have fired up
thunderbird, and some extra info. - version, locale, OS, build and maybe
(I assume) that it a debian build. I'd prefer to be asked before loading
and displaying something from outside my box.

In preferences I didn't find anything to stop html emails loading remote
content - the main way of tracking if you've read that commercial email
you received. However, it appears that thunderbird does do the right thing
there see

  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remote-content-in-messages

"Remote Content in Messages

Email messages can contain remote content such as images or stylesheets.
To protect your privacy, Thunderbird does not load remote content
automatically, but instead shows a notification bar to indicate that it
blocked remote content."

Thanks for making me look more at thunderbird; but I'll stick to my
text only MUA.

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