i am fairly sure i don’t send HTML mail
but what is wrong with it?
i have not heard of the
tage
This lists some issues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_email#Security_vulnerabilities
I've been using mutt for a while and really like it. It's simple, fast, and
runs in a terminal.
The #1 thing that makes me want to jam a penguin into someone's throat are
HTML emails.
*Especially* the complicated ones that are impossible to read unless you open
in your web-browser.
What an
I was also wondering what's the problem with html. If the email client does
not execute javascript, etc., reading html should be secure, shouldn't it?
Many of the posible issues I've found are related to email clients bugs. But
it seems that the web viewer can send information to the server
"HTML is an absolute waste of bytes."
well if watch one video downloaded from the internet it will be more bytes
than you will email in quite a while
so adding HTML formatting isn’t a major bandwidth issue
and if it can give extra features like different font sizes tables etc then
why not
Just looked at the wikipedia page and found a very good reason not to use
HTML in email
If an email contains web bugs (inline content from an external server, such
as a picture), the server can alert a third party that the email has been
opened. This is a potential privacy risk, revealing
Plain-text is love. Plain-text is life.
And apart from the security vulnerabilities that the other guy (whose mail
address is a long string of numbers and things which I shall not reproduce here
because I can't be bothered to log in the forum and check out this thread
myself to find out what his name is- oh, wait. Lembas.) pointed out,
I never send other people HTML emails. Unfortunately, everyone else does,
even for the smallest emails :(
Even though I use Claws Mail (and sometimes alpine) (because I wasn't prepared
to handle the mutt learning curve at the time and go into it properly) I never
send HTML mail. Everyone else seems to though.
Yes, less lines of code, less potential trouble.
That's one of the reasons why I have a netinstall and a window manager.
For now I'm on Claws rather than Mutt, which felt hard to use (though I've
never tried it). But with more skills, I could switch at some point.
intereresting ...please check out >
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-security-experts-are-using-an-ancient-email-format-in-2015
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