I use emailer primarily because I do not want to use Entourage because Entourage and any Outlook
- interprets HTML in the message body, which creates the mother of all spam and virus problems. So any new mail package should explicitely prohibit HTML recognition, and leave that to the browser after you choose to click. I think that is meant by "PARSE OUT the HTML" - I also dont want things to be put toghether in large files, such a huge .PST files. Because many weeks/months later you end up with corruption in that file. I am doing datarecovery quite often for people who have a 2GB mail-file, and they do have a backup, but they want us to find the last 10 mails inside a 2GB ocean of bytes. Which is close to impossible. - If the mail files would be a (MySQL e.g.) database, THEN that would be OK, because those can be backed up and recovered while online, and plenty tools exist. Trust me.. HTML is the primary reason for misery in all email today. It is the root thru which viruses come in, and it is the reason why we need spam filter. Without HTML sending confirmations back to the sender of spam, they would have a hard time and probably would be lost. On a government site in Belgium with information to the European public, they mention "most hackers and spammers use HTML". Which is a simple understatement. But they dont dare to say more because it hurts those that make a living from marketing mails that exactly need the same feedback as spammers use. I want HTML to be something that you receive as an attachment. It makes your mail package browser independant. (As there is many conflicting implementations of HTML, and I bet that when Explorer 9+ is launched, MS will push all web-developers to say on their website "this site requires explorer 9 of higher". Which is crazy ! For centuries mankind has been publishing books and documents that say "This books requires a candle or daylight and eyes or glasses..or higher" We should stop a movement where Macromedia/Adobe and MS are increasing the minimum along with the maximum. If I invite my folks for dinner somewhere in 2009, that message should not require a software package that came out the day before ! The key reason why I advise Emailer to all my customers today, is because HTML is impossible to become active / executable inside emailer. This means that in my folder VIRUSSES, I probably have ALL the virusses of the past 10 years, and I can track any attempt to spam, but NONE became active unless I clicked them and wanted to. If people would hear a BEEP eachtime a webserver registers what they are doing by reading HTML mail, they would be astonished. Any GIF or JPG or CSS or Flash within a website is retrieved from the server that is logging. Those logs are used by automated programs and that is what spammers do and use. Marketing offices and mailings do the same thing and are slowly getting stopped by laws via initiatives such as the official Robinson list(s). I suspects these also exist in other countries. Roger S. Cohen wrote on 17-01-2007 02:50 * * * Start of original message text * * * >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >on 1/16/07 8:15 PM: > >> 2. There is a mail developer willing to make their product more suitable >> to emailer converts. I explained I needed to move to intel soon, and >> would have to make a break. He asked, "What are the ten most important >> features that you must have to switch?" > >Have you tried Entourage? It does all the things you want, except for the >log. > --- Just Marc - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ 3888426 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
