[sylpheed:36655] Re: Text emails and html tags

[Gene Goldenfeld]

Ah, you hacking my email? The email that makes it to my Sylpheed inbox
doesn't meet your claim, not by a longshot. Depending on whether I'm
on my desktop or iPad, I use Mailwasher Pro or a webmail account
(Fastmail) as a spam filter.  Perhaps a two-step process like that might
lessen the problem you face. 

Gene


On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:58:30 -0800
Roger Pryor <rjpryor at infoserve.net> wrote:

> 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.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > Roger Pryor
> > > Vancouver, Canada
> 
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