Reply to post: Re: yes, but

Parliamentary 'puters made 30k tries to procure pr0nz last year

tiggity Silver badge

Re: yes, but

Only if your email is set up in a totally stupid way.

You should never just automatically pull down all images in email links

I download email headers only.

If they look OK, I grab the email (but do not auto pull down any content such as a link to an image)

I do not automatically render / process inline (or "normal") attachments in email client

Obv, for most people headers only may seem a bit paranoid, but as bare minimum users should have email set to NOT auto download images & other problem content in urls

.. but when you can get in a lot of serious trouble if any iffy content appears on your work machine, then it makes sense to be paranoid and make best efforts to sanitize emails to avoid the potential contract violation hassle

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