[sylpheed:32543] Re: Rendered HTML messages

[Bob White]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 08:23:14 +0100
Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 00:03:34 +0100
> Godwin Stewart <gstewart at bonivet.net> wrote: 
> 
> > On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 00:12:34 +0200, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it possible to view rendered HTML e-mails possibly by a plugin?
> > > And is it possible to let sylpheed prefer the HTML part of multipart
> > > messages?  
> > 
> > Sylpheed does not render HTML other than stripping tags (and I hope it
> > never does). You can, however, use an action to pass a selected HTML part
> > to the browser of your choice for displaying.
> 
> Claws Mail will also render HTML as text by stripping the tags, but in
> addition it has HTML rendering plugins which enable you to view the
> rendered HTML within Claws Mail itself. The plugins do not load remote
> remote images by default, so they are safer than simply passing the HTML
> part to the browser. 
> 
> best regards
> 
> Paul
> 

Hi Paul,

Is that a Windows concern?  I've never worried about loading images
from an HTML page on Linux.  Am I doing something that's riskier than I
think it is?

Bob W.