Hi Jerry, Most HTML emails you receive that you cannot read are spam. This is simply because most HTML-aware email clients (yep, even those from Microshaft) will (by default, at any rate) provide the message as both Text/Plain and Text/HTML using Multipart/Alternative (RFC 2046, section 5.1.4), and the BrailleNote will generally see the plain text portion first. So, in most cases, email you cannot read because it is in HTML turns out to be spam or, at the very least, promotional material.
At first, the solution seems to be to add HTML filtering capability to the BrailleNote which would either pass the email onto the web browser or elsee strip the HTML. However, a more effective, more universal, more considerate, less time-consuming, more secure, and generally better method of dealing with HTML email is just to tell all mail senders that you require mail in plain text, and that HTML mail will either be discarded or treated as spam, depending on your tendencies. For some time, I did this using an autoresponder, but I was finally brainwashed out of doing this by some very well-argued marketing drivel. Ironically, no sooner had the filter been disabled then the latest worm came around, exploiting HTML parsing vulnerabilities in the software of a well-known computer giant based in Redmond, Washington. <Sigh.> Some people just don't learn. The internet means too much to their fancy graphics and animated emails that the very cooperation that brought about the Internet in the firstplace fails to even slightly stir their consciences. :-( Cheers, Sabahattin -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first)
