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Outlook is probably the most common desktop client, but I think most people (even in corporate settings) are using webmail these days; either Google Apps Suite or Office 365. The former at least displays images by default (Google re-hosts them and rewrites the email source). Not sure if MS does the same.

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Outlook for Web does have something similar now they call "Outlook service" that loads images through the service under their Privacy and data settings. I think it defaults to "Always use" and the alternative is "Don't use." It sounds like it definitely protects your home IP address from being exposed, it might not prevent a tracking pixel working as read receipt if it doesn't fetch the image until you open the message.

My messages still don't load remote images and are topped with "Some content in this message has been blocked because the sender isn't in your Safe senders list" followed by a link to add the sender's address to the trusted list and another link to show blocked content in this particular message.

I have Apple's Mail desktop and mobile apps set to not load remote content but I think the default is for them to load.

Nope - https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

> Since determining the client in which an email is opened requires images to be displayed, the data for some email clients and mobile devices might be over- or under-represented due to automatic image blocking.

I wager Outlook users are less likely to have remote images enabled

It probably depends on the industry.

Some of the biggest companies in Europe use Outlook the desktop client, with said external resources disabled.

May differ in technically more advanced countries, of course.

Webmail is actually better thN the desktop client, but I have to remember to keep it in the background.

A desktop client with a thin wrapper around the websinterface would be best.

In the many companies I've seen in Germany not a single person used outlook OWA except for when outlook had problems starting up..

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