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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by hjek on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:47AM (#16978079)
Remote images in email is an anti-feature[0]. And if the images are attached to the email, why not just use an image viewer? Does your email client support video playback?

[0]: https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by sp332 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:35PM (#16978682)
That's fine, but there's no point comparing RAM usage between completely different apps like video players and email clients.
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by jonnycomputer on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:19PM (#16979095)
Because sometimes discussion centers in and around the images, as in discussion of analysis figures.
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