Christian Ebert wrote:
* A.J.Mechelynck on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 04:47:04 +0100:
Dave Land wrote:
Is there any way that the list managers can block these PayPal scam emails?
Maybe they can, but that won't block the Internet Pharmacy scams which will
arrive tomorrow from a different posting IP address, nor the bogus eBay
questions, BankAmerica warnings, or software offers of the day after. All
in all, considering the low volume of spam that reaches me with @vim.org in
"To or Cc" as compared to the proportion of spam in the rest of my email, I
suspect that a lot of the worst crap is already filtered away by the Vim
servers.
FWIW, I run Clamsmtpd
<http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/clamsmtp/> here, and it
caught 3 virii in the last few days. So the stuff is not
completely harmless.
c
Like all email, it is harmless as long as you don't open it. This means you
can even select it in the message-list pane provided that the Preview Pane (if
your mailer has one) is closed. Viewing the _source_ of a message (if your
mailer allows it) doesn't count as opening: it shows the raw text of the
message, not triggering any HTML or javascript that it might contain.
If you delete a message _unopened_ it cannot harm you.
I don't know about Mutt; but in both Outlook Express (which I have used) and
Thunderbird (which I use now) there is a preview pane which you can toggle
(open/close) with F8, and a View => Source menu item.
Best regards,
Tony.
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and the users may use,
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