Re: [Evolution] poll: patch to optionally disable HTML mail.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> Having the HTML as an attachment will work too, of course.
> I'm just curious if any preprocessing of the HTML occurs before it is
> viewed? I know that the damage possibilities in Linux and far smaller

Yes.  Currently the maximum amount of processing that can occur for a
text/html part:

 - MIME decoding at upper level (boundary detection etc).
 - quoted printable/base64 decoding
 - charset conversion (to utf8)
 - indexing, which involves parsing the html tags and stripping them
out, and then indexing the text left over (including some tag texts). 
This only happens moving a message to a local mailbox though.

This occurs before you even see the message.

> than in Windows, but still something could turn up that would be a
> problem, typically because of scripting or plugins.
> Plugins are not supported at all, right? I don't think they should be in
> the mail program...

Its possible to have automatically loaded in-line bonobo activated
objects to display data, I think.  e.g. when you get vcard.  These could
potentially do anything with any specific type attachment.