Bug 69218

Summary: does not support option for blocking images in mail
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: ellson
Component: mozillaAssignee: Christopher Blizzard <blizzard>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 1.0Keywords: Security
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Description ellson 2002-07-19 03:56:19 UTC
Description of Problem:
The option to block images in email from
remote sites is not working.    This hole is being actively used by spammers to
identify working email addresses.

The problem has been fixed in recent mozilla nightlies.  Please
upgrade asap.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mozilla-1.0.1-9.i386.rpm

How Reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit->preferences->privacy&security->images
2.      set "do not load images in Mail & Newsgroup messages"
3. 

Actual Results:
Doesn't work in 1.0.1-9

Expected Results:
Close security hole.

Additional Information:

Comment 1 ellson 2002-07-19 12:03:16 UTC
The Mozilla bug report for this is at:

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28327

Comment 2 Christopher Blizzard 2002-07-22 19:20:50 UTC
Fixed in rawhide builds.