This is a bug SmarterMail they need to do the replacements when displaying a plaintext email. Or switch the view automatically if there is only a plaintext portion of the email.
Does the origional email have a plaintext and html portion??? If it does and the HTML portion is blank then they are doing what many clients would do. Default to the HTML view. They also may be using poor judgment and assuming that no one would ever discuss HTML tags in a plain text email and not parsing them. Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Steiner > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:47 AM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding > > > I can't get SmarterTools to see this as a bug. Their answer is > that their web mail is set to HTML by default, and you should > just click on the "plain text" link to view it. Their support > doesn't seem to be able to grasp the wider implications of this problem. > > Gary > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:31 PM > > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding > > > > That's surely a bug. Dave sent his message as plain/text and > > SmarterMail should be replacing the brackets with HTML encoding before > > displaying it as HTML so that it should not be a functional > element when > > displayed., i.e. > > > > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5; > > URL=http://www.mydomain.com"> > > > > If Dave had sent it as an HTML message, his client would have done the > > replacement for him. > > > > This should probably be reported to SmarterMail. There are a lot of > > potential consequences, for instance, virus scanners won't generally > > consider code in plain/text segments to be executable, yet it can be in > > SmarterMail webmail if it is working the way that you reported. > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > Gary Steiner wrote: > > > > >It is interesting how SmarterMail's web mail interprets Dave's > message. It sees the META statement in his message as embedded > code, and runs it when I read the message. > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
