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Line 34: If an email contains inline content from an external server, such as an [[Digital image\|image]], the server can alert a third party that the e-mail has been opened. This is a potential privacy risk, revealing that an email address is real (so that it can be targeted in the future) and revealing when the message was read. For this reason, some e-mail clients do not load external images until requested to by the user. ~~Some~~The multipart type is intended to show the same content in different ways, but this is sometimes abused; some [[e-mail spam]] takes advantage of the ~~multi-part message~~ format to trick [[spam filter]]s into believing that the message is legitimate,. They do this by including innocuous content in the text part of the message and putting the spam in the HTML part (which is what displays to the user). Most e-mail spam is sent in HTML for these reasons, so spam filters (such as [[Spamassassin]]) give higher spam scores to HTML messages.

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