On 20200409, Derek Martin wrote:
Just because the current batch of GUI MUAs does this does not mean
yours *needs* to. That would be the beauty of a GUI Mutt--it already
has the philosophy of not automatically exposing you to all those same
attack vectors. After all, text-based Mutt has exactly the same
attack vetctors; it just does not expose you to them by default--you
have to take action to expose yourself to them.
And honestly, most mailers have the ability to avoid these attack
vectors--they just don't by default, because that's what the average
person wants. Mutt users typically are not average e-mail users, and
know better.
The few times I've imagined what kind of GUI email reader I would like enough
to use, it mostly comes down to plain text by default and not opening any
attachments or links until requested. Attachments would show as prompts; you
could see or save them all at once or individually. You could have whitelists
and blacklists, by sender and by URL. That's all I would really ask.
Someone mention a Torpedo extension to Thunderbird recently. so I installed
Thunderbird just to try it. Nope: Thunderbird doesn't even have a preference
to send text only email. It might be useful for those few emails where I need
to see the pictures to make any sense of it, but I will never use it regularly,
or to reply.
I get maybe one email a week or month which makes no sense as rendered text. I
save the HTML part as xxx.html and bring it up in an editor, and maybe in a
browser. It's always corporate email, and I doubt that tells them much they
don't already know or guess.
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