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Bayard Coolidge USG <coolidge at n1ho.zk3.dec.com> writes: > In fact, it's an amusing irony that I am now running exmh 2.5 (thanks > to Paul Lussier's excellent talk in Nashua a couple of months ago). > ........ > One of the bad things about much of the spam is that the message is > in HTML, which exmh will readily display inline for me, BUT all too > often, there are references to .gif or other decorations from an > external site that I have to wait forever for. Or, worse yet, there's > an inline URL that calls up a web page using a specific serial number > as an argument, which in effect tells the server/spammer that I > opened the message. Exmh can be configured to defer rendering the html until you click on the highlighted placeholder. When I get one of these in my inbox, I usually treat it as spam and delete it unseen, without rendering the html. Also, by default a multipart/alternative with a text/plain and a text/html will render whichever part appears last in the message. In practice, this is always the text/html, as every mail client I've seen that sends multipart/ alternative always includes the text/plain part first. However, there's a patch for exmh that makes it check explicitly for a text/plain part, and renders that by default. That should reduce the false-positives to almost zero. http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mh-users/1999-03/msg 00008.html -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr at jabber.org / YAHOO abreauj Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 344 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20020311/af926a64/attachment.sig>
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