Hans, On Thursday 09 September 2004 10:58, Hans du Plooy wrote:
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I'm going to assume you have in your settings that you prefer html mail for most things and under View>Attachments>Inline selected? Those will certainly help, but as they warn you, are not the best/safest settings to use.
Apart from the funky buffer-overflow exploits in some of the image-related code (which are now starting to become known and are getting fixed, it seems, based on recent YOU updates), showing embedded (not linked) images is fairly safe.
Yes, for the purposes of my personal mail I'm so far happy to rely on kmail's relative obscurity :-)
What does that mean? You still expose yourself to some of the exploits made possible my HTML mail, though surely not nearly as many as with Outlook on Windows. (My "favorite" one of late is using query URLs to fetch images while using the query parameter to send an indication that your email address is live, even if you don't reply or even if you attempt to bounce the message as undeliverable.) Be aware that you can set the HTML-mail-preffered flag on a per-folder basis. I only leave it enabled on select folders into which I filter mail from certain trusted sources.
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Hans du Plooy
Randall Schulz