Way to temporarily disallow remote content exceptions to save data while traveling?
I'm about to travel for over three weeks, and I'll be paying for internet usage by the MB most of the time. When I check messages in Thunderbird, I'd like to prevent remote content from loading - I don't need to see all those images and such during that period. The global "Allow remote content in messages" setting is already off, but I have many "exceptions", and I don't want to just delete all the exceptions and start over allowing them one by one after I get home. Ideas?
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Try this:
- exit thunderbird and copy the permissions.sqlite and content-prefs.sqlie files elsewhere
- now, restart thunderbird and click to settings>privacy&security and click the exceptions button and adjust as desired for the temporary restrictions
- at end of the temporary period, exit thunderbird and copy the backed up files back and then restart thunderbird
Okay, that makes sense. (I had to look up what those files do, but it sounds about right.) I'll give it a try when I'm about to go on limited internet, and I'll mark your reply as the solution if it works.
How about viewing messages in plain text only, instead of HTML? View (Alt-V) - Message Body As - Plain Text
Alternatively 'Simple HTML' may also do what you want, but I haven't tried it.
christ1 said
How about viewing messages in plain text only, instead of HTML? View (Alt-V) - Message Body As - Plain Text Alternatively 'Simple HTML' may also do what you want, but I haven't tried it.
As far as I can tell, those view modes would still download all the HTML but just not show it to me, making it harder to read without any benefit. I have no idea whether it would still download remote content if the sender is in my pre-approved Exceptions list - that's hard to test because I can't see it.
I do plan to use the Disk Space feature in Account Settings to prevent downloading big messages (I tested it and it works nicely - the message will show content up to the limit you've set and then say "Truncated" with a link to download the rest if desired). That's going to be my main line of defense, as big attachments are worse than remote images like logos. I just thought remote images would be a second area I could limit.