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Note that apple has a bug, and has had it for years and years.

If you have it turned off it won't load remote images...

EXCEPT: if you forward an email - it will load them all, all of them. This is especially troublesome if you want to forward a phishing email to IT.

(thank you little snitch. also I am not using the latest catalina apple mail)

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You can bypass this by doing "forward as attachment", which you should be doing anyway, since it preserves the headers.

Thanks for posting this.

Your friendly email inspector who needs to explain this x times a day.

For anyone not using it, the great thing about Little Snitch is being able to set just the precise port numbers and remote hosts you want a given app to access while blocking everything else, rendering plug-ins like MailTrackerBlocker unnecessary. You can also set profiles for different networks, and even have them switch automatically: https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch/adv-profiles .

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