On Friday 29 June 2018 09:04:16 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 08:24:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > > I use a web browser to browse the web, but I use mutt to read and > > send email. > > ...which of course is perfectly capable of calling out into a viewer > for HTML (lynx or somesuch). But yeah... > > > The two things are completely separate for me. And, I suspect, for > > many other Debian users. > > Same for me, but see below. > > > If someone sends email which contains only HTML and not a textual > > part, mutt shows me the raw HTML. And then I delete the email, > > because if they can't be bothered to send their words in an ordinary > > plain text message [...] > > Sometimes you gotta compromise. I spent a short period of my life in > a corporate environment. I may have lost what's left of my sparse > sanity had I been forced to use Outlook.
Certainly a step in that direction. > So I actually managed to get > fetchmail to talk to their Exchange server (IMAP). Needless to say, > most company mails were HTML (few people even knew that, and I was > in the computer tech department!). > > My HTML viewer was html2text. Most probably immune to the > vulnerability we're talking about, although I wouldn't bet my farm [1] > on it :-) Bet only what you can afford to lose. And generally, that amount donated to a charity will do more good. > > Cheers > [1] that one I don't have :-) > -- tomás I don't consider this postage stamp of yellow clay a farm. But its been paid off for 20+ years now. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
