robertbaer wrote: > Quoting "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote: >> robertbaer wrote: >>> I have been noticing a lot of traffic concerning e-mail regarding >>> sending, receiving, etc. >>> There is a simple solution that avoids browser-related e-mail >>> "clients" and solves all of the issues. >>> The solution is radical: do NOT use them in any way, shape, size, >>> form or color! >>> Instead use WEBMAIL; it seems that most (maybe all?) ISPs offer >>> web-mail to / for their customers. >> >> What about those of us who appreciate all the extra features of an >> email client? What about those who hate webmail? >> >> How would you suggest I handle my seventeen email addresses from five >> different servers? >> >>> Consider: all e-mail travels via their server, they deal with virus >>> and other malware issues before you even know there is an e-mail with >>> issues. >> >> That's false. Email you receive in SeaMonkey or other clients has >> already been through that server. Why didn't it strip the virus? > > * Methinks those servers are acting more like relays and just blindly > pass the baton on - dirt and fungus still attached.
That same "dirt and fungus" is still available at your webmail. All of my ISPs will not detach any attachments, nor strip any scripts, and so are just as infectuous at webmail. >>> If you can configure their webmail for all ASCII or mostly ASCII >>> (ie: >>> NO HTML, NO JAVA, in short no Swiss cheese) then you have virtual >>> protection on par with any "firewall". >> >> So is that. You're also confusing Java with JavaScript. The two are >> unrelated, sharing only the first four letters of their names. > > * Picky; you darn well know what i mean - NO running of internal > scripts, which BTW includes VB scripts.. All of the webmail apps I know of must have JavaScript enabled in order to meet even their basic functions. This means that any embedded JavaScript in an email you receive can and will execute. Any malicious executable file is still executable - and on your computer. What if someone sends you, say, a Word document? You can't open it on the *web* server, you have to download it to open it. Methinks you worry too much. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
