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Text-Based User Interfaces (TUI; CLI)
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As long as your graphical email client has the loading of remote images turned off, the tracking pixel won’t be visited.
Most/Many email software has this be default or can be enabled: Thunderbird, iOS Mail, FastMail app and website, etc.
Text-based email is cool though. My college had us using Pine back in the day.
I suppose you could even say text-based clients are at a disadvantage because when we opt to render the HTML graphically, a full-blown browser is launched which is likely less hardened than something like whatever profile and engine Thunderbird embeds.
In my case I created a firejailed browser with
--net=none
so I could hit a certain key binding to launch the neutered browser to render an HTML attachment in a forced-offline context--- but I was too fucking lazy to dig up what keys I bound to that which is why I (almost?) got burnt.Good idea to open HTML attachments in an isolated browser. I normally open them in lynx but sometimes it doesn't work as intended.
For any (neo)mutt users out there, you can configure this quite nicely by defining your MIME handlers in
~/.mailcap
:Then bind your Enter key to open attachments via mailcap:
In neomutt I ended up customizing the print function. So if I “print” an attachment, it launches a script that runs
wkhtmltopdf
insidefirejail --net=none
followed by rendering in Firefox (also insidefirejail --net=none
), so I get an instant isolated firefox view as well as a PDF.I’m happy with that replacement because I would never want to send something straight to a printer anyway. I would want to preview before printing. And the print function is documented right on the screen when looking at attachments, so no key binding to try to remember.