Michael Schneider wrote:
because Thunderbird performs the most basic functionality of an e-mail
client which is to display my plaintext e-mail per RFC-822????
No, because it displays remote images if I want it.
Yes, and my car can go up on the sidewalk if I want it. Not the cars
fault, just the loose nut behind the wheel.
Allowing images to be viewed in TheBat! makes TB! no less secure. Again,
it is the loose nut behind the keyboard. Using your methodology of
"protecting" the user, every web browser should not display ads, images,
links etc, etc because they may be harmful to the uneducated. My primary
e-mail client is now Thunderbird, why?, one reason is because it allows
me the option to view images (that and &^%$# IMAP). I have banking
institutions and businesses that send e-mail and statements in HTML with
images that provide information. This is the way they do business, most
do not have a plain text option or multi-part capability. I am able to
white list these using the address book. This does not make the client
less secure. I make the choice to allow/disallow images, not Thunderbird
and not Mozilla. Same with TheBat!, if some yo-yo allows the wrong
images and gets trashed, that is not TB! or RIT's fault, it is the loose
nut behind the keyboard, once burned twice shy.
Heck, right now I can receive a SPAM e-mail in TB! and click away on all
the links in it, doing probably more damage than viewing images in
another more docile e-mail. Maybe we should lock down URL's too, and
while we're at it let's just strip that potentially nasty HTML crap
right out of TB! and lean it up a bit.
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Mike Rourke
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