What stays the same

Both choices can receive legitimate mail. Neither guarantees anonymity, trustworthy senders or secure accounts. You still need unique authentication and a dependable recovery plan.

What changes

With remote-content control, you can apply this principle: block remote content by default for unknown or intrusive senders. With automatic image loading, displaying a message can quietly request unique content from a sender. The value is containment rather than invisibility.

A separate route changes the size of the clean-up.

How to choose

Use the simpler option when the consequence is small and the relationship is short. Choose stronger separation when recovery, public exposure or cross-context matching would matter.

  • Block remote images
  • Prefer plain text
  • Open links deliberately
  • Separate intrusive senders

The honest caveat

Privacy proxies can obscure open data but do not make every link or attachment safe. Make the decision for the risk you actually have, not the most dramatic risk you can imagine.

Give the next relationship its own route.

Create an MXDuck alias