On Friday 07 Mar 2003 3:52 pm, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 10:22 am, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > On Friday 07 Mar 2003 3:04 pm, Jan wrote: > > > This is strictly speaking irrelevant - but this subject reminds me of > > > too many SPAM mails I have received recently. They all come with a > > > subject like 'Re: ...' or some claim that I requested something (a > > > report, pictures, ...). Or the classic: 'Hi, where have you been?' > > > > > > One wonders what they spammers want with this obviously brainless > > > approach. However, many of them are sent as html, and when you open > > > them, they will generate hits on whichever web-site they point to, and > > > for all you know this could be related to bomb-making or child-porn. > > > > > > Which mail-clients allow one to NOT interpret and show html-mail? The > > > latest Mozilla has an option, and text-only mailers would of course not > > > interpret html (or...?) > > > > > > /jan > > > > My personal preference is kmail - part of KDE. > > > > If memory serves me right, it defaults to 'HTML' but this can be turned > > off. > > I think it defaults to "Plain Text". You have to explicitly tell it to turn > HTML rendering on if you want to read HTML mail. Even then there would be a > warning about bad things that can happen if you turn HTML mail on. > That's the way a sane e-mail client to behave, I think.
I was speaking from memory so you could be right. > > It will not send HTML formatted mail. > > If you get HTML mail in Kmail and display it as plain text, you'll get to > see all the horrible tags. Sometimes I get that, sometimes I get a blank window. I think it depends on the MIME headers. One thing that does bug me about kmail is that it doesn't support uuencoding - but that by the way. > > RDB -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
