Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution anti-html email poll

[Rodney Dawes <dobey ximian com>]

The URL in Colin's mail comes up a 404, and the last I recall, the
patch was implemented incorrectly and added new UI. It sounds like
there was a misunderstanding that it would not be accepted because
users don't want it. If most all of your HTML mail is spam, then
spamassassin should be catching it. Just not displaying HTML won't
solve the issue, especially if the HTML is the only content in the
mail, or there is a text/plain alternative, and we just display that
instead. There is a wishlist item in bugzilla for having a preference
to display plaintext over html, when it is available. Aside from that,
Evolution is designed to follow the RFC for the display of multipart
e-mails. If there is a bug in the way that is working, that is another
issue separate from whether or not we should have an option to willingly
ignore the RFC. I am sure that a gconf-only preference to *prefer* the
text/plain part over text/html when available, would be accepted, if
implemented properly. However, one that adds new UI and willingly just
goes off and totally ignores the RFC will not. Evolution 1.5 also has
spam filtering using Spamassassin. If that doesn't allow you to get
rid of the spam html mails, then I have a feeling that just using
text/plain as the display method, will not solve your problems.

-- dobey

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 13:05, Larry Dillon wrote:
> No wonder I couldn't find the optio to disable HTML rendering!
> 
> >If you would like to see this patch
> > in Evolution, please send a message in support to
> > evolution-hackers ximian com 
> 
> 
> > [Evolution] poll: patch to optionally disable HTML mail?
> > Colin Walters walters debian org
> > 29 Apr 2002 18:43:17 -0400
> > 
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> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Have you ever been annoyed by HTML email?  Do you want to have the
> > option not to see 66 pt. bold red headers that someone decided to
> > write?  Is the only HTML email you get spam, and you'd like to have the
> > option to turn it into an attachment?  Do you know anyone else who would
> > like this option?
> > 
> > I have written a patch which implements this
> > (http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/render-html.patch).  Some of
> > the Evolution developers aren't convinced that many people would use
> > it.  So, we decided to have a poll.  If you would like to see this patch
> > in Evolution, please send a message in support to
> > evolution-hackers ximian com 
> > 
> > Thanks!