On Thursday, April 03, 2003, Jonathan Angliss wrote in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> If an HTML-formatted message is received which (a) seeks to phone >> home in order to receive a web bug, (b) is not viewed as HTML, i.e., >> is viewed as text if present, and (c) is viewed in an application >> that is not restricted in any manner from Internet access, including >> to port 80, would the code be received from the remote source? JA> TB doesn't fetch items from remote servers for that very reason. The JA> only way you could get it to do that would be to open the html in your JA> browser. Jonathan, Thanks, but the reason my inquiry is OT is that it's not about TB! that I'm asking. I need to use a program called Time Matters by data.txt. It's made to work with MAPI-compliant MUA's, but TB!'s MAPI support does not do the trick, so I've had to use the internal mailer. The program also has a browser. Unfortunately, I cannot set up different rulesets in my s/w firewall for the browser and the mailer, so either I allow remote port 80 or I do not allow remote port 80. The best I can do is to restrict a message from opening up in HTML without my deliberate intervention. So my real question is whether that is sufficient to stop unwanted code from gaining access to my system through those messages if I do *not* allow HTML. -- JN ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
