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by viraptor 5172 days ago
I'd accept it if it had only false negatives in "different person" detection. False positives are not really acceptable with this method now that we've got people using webmail/clients/mobiles.

For example, my client at work is on all the time - it will happily pre-cache all the images. But the same message will be visible on my mobile too - what happens when I open it there? If I got an error, I'd probably check with website for accessing the same mailbox - what would happen after 2 "forwards" - image deleted?

This is a reality of today's offices, not an edge case I'm afraid. It will also fail for shared email accounts (for example "info" or "support" type destinations). Or auto-forward while someone is on long vacation will do exactly the wrong thing - let someone else read it, but not the real recipient.