Undoing "Show remote content in this message"?

[BrowseMail]

I am accessing a Gmail account with IMAP using Thunderbird 31.0/Windows.

When selecting "Show remote content in this message", is there any way to then go back to not showing remote content for that message? I would like to be able to do this at the message level, not at a global level.

[sfhowes]

I think you can only change the setting for the sender's address or the domain which is specified under Tools/Options/Privacy/Mail Content/Exceptions. To re-download a message on an IMAP server, view the message source (Ctrl-U).

[morat]

To undo "Show remote content in this message"

* select message
* tools > error console
* copy and paste code
* evaluate

Code: Select all

top.opener.setMsgHdrPropertyAndReload("remoteContentPolicy", 0);

To undo "Allow remote content for"

* tools > options > privacy > mail content > exceptions

Remote Content in Messages
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/re ... n-messages

[BrowseMail]

Thanks for your replies.

Nice to know there is a way to undo ""Show remote content in this message". However, why doesn't Thunderbird have the option to undo it (like Outlook has)? It would be more user-friendly than using a console interface. Is there a Thunderbird extension that provides this functionality?

[morat]

Why doesn't Thunderbird have the option to undo it?

I'm not really sure what the use case is for undoing the allow remote images option - at the point you enable it, you've already allowed the remote images load and a "phone home" if there's tracking in place.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626988#c2

For reading only as Bugzilla is not a forum.

[BrowseMail]

Thanks for your feedback morat.

However, as the tracking happens every time a message is viewed (not just one off), I think it would still be a good idea to have a user-friendly option to switch back off the remote content for a message. That way it would at least give the user some easy control over their privacy and prevent further tracking of messages, particularly when archived messages are accessed some time after.

Another option would be just show remote content for a one-off viewing, but it remains off otherwise.

[sfhowes]

I noticed today an add-on that offers one-time options to display remote content: http://totalmessage.mozdev.org/

See the section "Fine tune remote content in messages".

[BrowseMail]

I noticed today an add-on that offers one-time options to display remote content: http://totalmessage.mozdev.org/

See the section "Fine tune remote content in messages".

Thanks for mentioning this. However, the extension no longer appears to be on https://addons.mozilla.org according to https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Total ... +extension. I would like to see some user reviews before trying it out.