Junk mail still loading images

Hi -- I've set my Mail program to NOT display remote images, and Junk Mail filtering is on, but if I click on a message marked as "Junk" it still loads up the image! Doesn't this kind of defeat the security involved in marking a message junk? Loading the remote image now tells the spammer that my email address is valid and I am clicking on their messages! How do I tell Mail to stop it? This makes me wary of even trying to check if a message is spam or not in fear of accidentally transmitting my existence to the spammer...

Hi geefunk3.
it still loads up the image!
What image? The setting is just to prevent Mail from loading remote images. There is no harm in Mail displaying images sent as attachments with the message. Only images that require connecting to a remote server to display them are an issue -- see How HTML Email Messages Relate to Unsolicited Commercial Email ("spam").

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