If you include a link in a text-only mail you send normally the receiving mail program makes it clickable. No html is needed for that, in all cases I know except perhaps for pine which I used many years ago and which doesn't support clicking.
Theo Moye <[email protected]> schrieb am Sa., 18. Mai 2019, 17:15: > The annoying thing as I see it is that K9 mail lets you click links in > received emails, but doesn't allow you to add links in your signatures, > which I too would like. So as I see it K9 does support HTML, just not when > it comes to sending. > > On 17/05/2019 07:34, Gunter Königsmann wrote: > > Same at my working place: you write a mail that requires us to employ a > full-fledged html parser as an additional attack surface for security holes > - and you instantly risk getting blocked. > Additionally html signatures with images make searching for "this one mail > that contains an attachment" hard as every mail contains this image => if > you were willing to write a full html editor for mails including providing > the possibility to place images relative to the canvas/to the text, the > logic that attaches them to any mail if needed and to make them scale > accordingly to the screen resolution and size (possibly allowing to make > the layout of the signature auto-adjust if the screen is a 9:20 aspect > ratio cellphone) I cannot guarantee someone will include it in a mail > client whose main advantages are that this client is simple, is using only > a small amount of resources and fast. > > If you instead want k9 to be able to load an html file and to attach it to > every sent mail k9 wouldn't need to be equipped with a big html editor but > as html comes in many flavours and since it can reference external files > that still would make k9 unnecessarily big. > > As I am no k9 developer, but just an user who likes k9 to be simple this > opinion might greatly differ from the one of the real developers, though. > > Uri Blumenthal <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr., 17. Mai 2019, 03:49: > >> Yes, that's a shame. >> >> Of course, our firewall would block those emails unless explicitly >> instructed not to... >> >> One could tell such a company that serious organizations won't receive >> their emails... >> >> Sent from my test iPhone >> >> > On May 16, 2019, at 20:26, Calum Mackay <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> On 17/05/2019 12:44 am, Uri Blumenthal wrote: >> >> Nobody in their right mind would click on a link in an email, >> especially insecure email. But pictures and such that the email app >> downloads automatically for you is a different story (of course, reasonable >> people configure their clients to never do that). >> >> If a person cannot create email without sticking a picture or weird >> fonts into his signature - ... >> > >> > Annoyingly, some companies have that as a requirement, i.e. to add a >> custom HTML signature to emails that their employees send, via the >> employee's mail app. >> > >> > Telling the company that they shouldn't have that requirement, isn't >> the answer in most cases, sadly. >> > >> > regards, >> > calum. >> > >> >> Sent from my test iPhone >> >>> On May 16, 2019, at 19:10, Pen Dragon <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 5:56:41 PM UTC-5, David W. Jones wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Yes, adding images provides great functionality for tracking and >> >>> other privacy invasions. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Yes, but I have a saying: "Ban plastic knifes from the school >> cafeteria? I do wish [insert school principle] would realize that I can >> kill someone with my car keys". The point of this saying is that anything >> can be used as a weapon. 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