Disabling Javascript in Mail.app

Does anyone know if it's possible to disable embedded javascript in mail messages? There seems to be a good amount of spam getting through lately that uses javascript to force images to load automatically, and I'm a bit uneasy about that!

I think you want to disable HTML...check that your Mail preferences are set to protect your computer by not displaying remote images.
MAIL/Preferences/Viewing...uncheck Display Remote Images...

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Ever since I logged on to iCloud in OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.0, 10.8.1), I've noticed that in Gmail (using the Mail app for iOS), on my iPhone running iOS 5.1.1, the sender appears to be my MobileMe account (an account I had to use a while back when I first got started using iCloud, but haven't actually used).
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It's just so annyoing when trying to send a quick reply to a colleague or something.
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I feel funny replying to myself; I cannot remove this discussion and at any rate, I guess if someone else has this problem, they'll be pleased it has not been deleted.
So, I managed to fix this all on my own. Obviously the difficulty-level is about as low as it gets:
After updating to iOS 6 last night, I was playing around in the settings of my phone, when I came across this, the iCloud for Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calandars > Accounts > iCloud:
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How can I disable mail.app?

I want to disable mail.app. I don't buy that it's "needed by OS X." I want it shut off, or preferably uninstalled. I found a better app that still lets me read newsgroups, and mail.app just gets in the way. I had to go in and tell Google Calendar to shut off email notifications to stop the Notification Center from opening mail.app without me wanting it.
I might consider re-enabling mail.app, but not now. Maybe not ever. I bought a Mac so applications would only run when I want them. This is not it.

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How to disable message images in Mail app for all but contacts?

I use the Mail app for OS X Mavericks and have been inundated with spam lately. I understand that spam email campaigns can confirm that you have opened their mail (and subsequently continue to send you mail) by image tracking so I would like to disable images from showing for all except my contacts. I don't recall if it was with Mail or another email client I previously used, but I vaguely remember message images not showing by default and requiring you to click a button at the top of the message in order to show the images within it. If possible, I would like to be able to do this for non-contacts.
So my question is: how can I disable images from showing, by default, in messages from non-contacts within the Mail app?
If there is no way to do this, can someone suggest an alternative email client for Mac OS that does allow this? I am willing to change if this feature does not exist within the Mail app.
Thanks for your time.

Personally, I've never heard of spammers tracking by a contact's image. I think you might be confusing this with the images in the message.
Spammers can do two things to track you.
1) Send an email with a read receipt. Mail doesn't support read receipts
2) Send an email with an embedded image (sometimes called a bug or beacon). When the email is opened, the email software loads the image from the remote server by sending it an HTTP request.
If a message matches the junk mail criteria, then a bar will appear near the top of the message. External images in the message will automatically be disabled, so that spam authors won’t be able to track if you’ve opened the message. To load the images, click the “Load Images” button in the bar, or to mark the message as not junk, select “Not Junk.”
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** Open Previous Recipients under Window in the Menu bar. Remove any addresses from spammers.

Exception in javascript library when testing Mail app with IE9/ Safari

Hi,
I have almost finished my mail app, but a strange issue that only appears with IE9 prevents me from successfully completing the verification process and therefore I can not publish my app.
The issue is very similar to this post, which could unfortunately not have been answered so far:
'OSF is undefined' script error in o15apptofilemappingtable.js
file when Mail App launched
I have tested the app successfully with the following browsers: Chrome (40.0.2214.111 m), Firefox (35.0.1), IE 11 and IE 10.
In IE9 I first get:
App
Error Something
went wrong and we couldn't start this app. Please try again later or contact your system administrator.
When
I then click "retry" I get:
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Important to mention is, that when I build and deploy the sample mail project that ships with Visual Studio it just works fine (this is a difference to the other thread from above). There must be something special with my code but even after days of research
I can absolutely not figure out what it is. In contrast to the sample mail app, my project is an ASP.NET MVC application by the way (if that is important).
To isolate the problem I tried several things:
* I have removed all other javascript libraries to make sure that there are no conflicts between them.
* I removed all javascript code except the Office.initialize= ...
code to be sure that there isn't a problem with my custom javascript code.
But whatever I tried it doesn't help and basically I am fishing in troubled waters as I do not have an idea what the real problem is and why it is only happening on IE9.
Best regards
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Hi,
in the meantime I noticed that I also get this problem with Safari.
I started to debug the office api and could isolate the problem further.
Please forward the following information to the responsible microsoft engineer as it contains valuable information to fix the problem.
The Exception I get happens becaus of a call to window.external.GetContext() in in the o15apptofilemappingtable.js. The calls happens because in the function OSF.InitializationHelper.prototype.getAppContext, the value of this._hostInfo.isRichClient
is true. Looks like in IE9 and Safari the api thinks it is running in the desktop version of outlook (but of course it is not and therefore the call to window.external fails -> I guess only available/set in desktop environment).
The api thinks of running as rich client becaus the XdmInfoValue does not exist in o15apptofilemappingtable.debug.js line 155 (it is undefined). I am not a javascript specialist and don't know what xdm stands for (cross domain? X-Document?) but however:
the xdm part which should be passed in the window.location as a hash value is not set in IE9/ Safari.
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Disable drafts autosave in Mail.app

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Basically when I am trying to navigate to add an attachment, I often accidentally double click folders as I am trying to make my way through them. In 99% of programs this is not an issue, but in Mail, the program will decide that what I want to do is attach the folder. Often this happens with giant, top-level folders, and so I am treated to a 10-20 second or so wait while it locates all 20GB of files in the folder and tries to add them to an e-mail. Then I have to delete that attachment and start over again.
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It took me a while to figure out what it was you were seeing.
That happens in Column view because that is what column view does. You only need to click once on a folder to open it in column view. So, if you double-click, it thinks you want to use that folder. Attaching a folder to an email is a somewhat expected behavior, so that is how Mail responds. Other apps aren't expecting to get a folder, so it just happily ignores your double-click and waits until you provide a file to open.
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It sounds like your machine is using "Power Nap".
Yes? No?
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Instructions for disabling Mail.app

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