[sylpheed:36654] Re: Text emails and html tags

Roger Pryor rjpryor at infoserve.net
Sun Dec 24 07:58:30 JST 2017


Hi:

But then most of those emails are usually junk mail - so who cares.

No-one that I know and correspond with uses HTML mail.

Roger Pryor




On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 15:46:32 -0700
Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at fastmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I misunderstand how it works, but my hesitation to support a ban
> stems from many emails that are blank in text and only readable, and
> the needed links only viewable, in the text/HTML version.
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:33:36 -0800
> Roger Pryor <rjpryor at infoserve.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > I've used Sylpheed since the early 0's, for two reasons:
> > 
> > 1)	Its simple and easy to use,
> > and
> > 2)	It refuses to handle HTML.
> > 
> > There are very few occasions when HTML is useful in email, and far too
> > risky, in my mind, to be worthwhile.  I agree - ban it, please.
> > 
> > Roger Pryor
> > 
> > On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 23:02:12 +0300
> > Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > MHF:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,  for  obvious  security  reasons I reckon that
> > > > emails in text mode should show urls etc  as  text
> > > > only  too not just the text in the body. As things
> > > > are you can still click on a potentially dangerous
> > > > url.  What do you think?
> > > 
> > > I  think  HTML e-mail should be banned (see my sig).
> > > For those who fear they may click on a URL by  acci-
> > > dent, a new setting in Sylpheed to show URLs as text
> > > or to display a warning before opening them  in  the
> > > browser would be useful.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Please, do not forward replies to my e-mail.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Roger Pryor
> > Vancouver, Canada


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