[Kde-pim] how does kmail find face-like images from mail senders ?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 20 July 2015 15:15:36 Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Sunday 19 July 2015 23:33:42 Martin Koller wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've seen that kmail displays a senders "face" icon in the "fancy headers"
> > style in the top right corner.
> > I know this feature from earlier kmail versions which used the X-face mail
> > header. However the mails I see an image do not have an X-face or similar
> > header. I also know that kmail checks the address books for images, but I
> > find images from people in KDE mailing lists which I do not have in my
> > address book. So my question, how does kmail find the image to a person ?
> 
> Afaik Laurent added support for gravatar.com

Yeah, I also was very surprised to see that. And I'm shocked that this is 
enabled by default. This is completely against KMail's traditional choice of 
default settings: no rendering of HTML message by default, no fetching of 
external references in HTML message by default (if HTML is enabled), no 
automatic MDNs.

Obviously, I haven't been KMail's maintainer for a long time, but I would 
never have enabled an option by default which automatically makes a connection 
to an external website as soon as a message is displayed for fetching some 
stupid picture because the image lookup allows tracking whether people have 
opened a message. Direct marketing companies would love this feature if 
Outlook supported it (and had enabled it by default). This is so not okay. I 
am seriously disappointed.


Regards,
Ingo
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