Then I would suggest making a feature enhance ment to SmarterTools. "If a message has not HTML part then default to displaying the plain text."
It sounds to me that SmarterMail defaults to an HTML view of a message. They do not see this as a bug so it must be a feature!! Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Doherty > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:52 AM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding > > > Hi Kevin- > > My original message was text-only. I just checked to be sure. > > -d > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Bilbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:35 PM > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding > > > > 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. > > > > > > --- > 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.
