Element Hiding Helper in Thunderbird

pluto2 · Post by **pluto2** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:49 am

Hey folks!

I'm trying out Element Hiding Helper in Thunderbird, and it works, but... it will only show the IP for my mail server as page to hide the elements on. That would mean that it would do the same for ALL emails which definitely is NOT a good idea, why isn't the sender address used instead of mail server IP? This makes element hider useless in Thunderbird, or am I wrong?

Kristian

jamieplucinski · Post by **jamieplucinski** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:20 am

Because the sender address is not a valid destination, you can't visit me@mydomain.com in a web browser and expect to see a web page in the same way that you can't expect element hider to return a sender's address as a valid URL.

If you are getting spam e-mails with HTML elements I'd turn off HTML rendering, View > Message Body As > Plain Text, or Simple HTML.

Element hider was primarily designed to work with ABP, which was designed to work with Firefox. And while ABP is great for blocking images and other nasties included with HTML e-mails Thunderbird uses a different method of displaying content, it'll use either your mail server IP or a mailbox:// location for attached images as opposed to Firefox's live HTTP locations.

pluto2 · Post by **pluto2** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:17 pm

I see, so we'll probably not see any change in the behavior regarding this then. In emails, the element hider isn't quite as necessary though as it is with webpages, so I guess it isn't a big issue, but still! Thanks for the information!

chewey · Post by **chewey** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:18 pm

You can of course use sender based filters directly within Thunderbird.
The bayesian junk filter works very well too.

pluto2 · Post by **pluto2** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:48 pm

sure, but I was trying to remove a part of a html mail rather than blocking the whole email

jamieplucinski · Post by **jamieplucinski** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:23 pm

By default thunderbird will hide remote images in HTML unless you allow it, simple HTML would probably be your best bet here....

You could, however, use element hiding helper, and set it to "Any Domain", but that would only really work for obvious filters like /banner/* etc. Still it might be worth taking a look at.

pluto2 · Post by **pluto2** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:55 am

Yeah it might, I'll have a second look at it!