[P1] Spam Safety Using Mail.app

[Paul Bernhardt]

Mike Beede said on 5/8/03 7:21 AM:

>On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 06:55 US/Central, Jack Rodgers wrote:
>
>> Option 3. Open Mail preferences and temporarily disable your account. 
>> Again, no guarantees that spam may not hide something in your memory.
>
>If what you're worried about is an HTTP connection, disabling your
>mail account isn't going to do anything.  Turning off HTML in your
>mail preferences, though.  I'm not aware of any way that a message
>can do anything else to advertise your presence unless you open
>or save an attachment.
>
>	Mike

This is what I do... Now, I've not watched to see if it is preventing any 
info from being sent out on my opening of the mail. 

I use an antiquated email program on my OS9 machine (Claris Emailer) 
which basically ignores HTML, so no worries there.

Paul