On Mon, 6 May 2002, Not Zed wrote:
> >
> > Having the HTML as an attachment will work too, of course.
> > I'm just curious if any preprocessing of the HTML occurs before it is
> > viewed? I know that the damage possibilities in Linux and far smaller
>
> Yes. Currently the maximum amount of processing that can occur for a
> text/html part:
>
> - MIME decoding at upper level (boundary detection etc).
> - quoted printable/base64 decoding
> - charset conversion (to utf8)
> - indexing, which involves parsing the html tags and stripping them
> out, and then indexing the text left over (including some tag texts).
> This only happens moving a message to a local mailbox though.
>
> This occurs before you even see the message.
>
> > than in Windows, but still something could turn up that would be a
> > problem, typically because of scripting or plugins.
> > Plugins are not supported at all, right? I don't think they should be in
> > the mail program...
>
> Its possible to have automatically loaded in-line bonobo activated
> objects to display data, I think. e.g. when you get vcard. These could
> potentially do anything with any specific type attachment.
>
Right. This is exactly what AbiWord does :-)
Cheers
Martin
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