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

[Martin Moeller <martin liga dk>]

Okay, let me just be sure:

Does reading a message off an IMAP server qualify as moving a message to
a local mailbox? What about messages that are filtered server side?

Regards,

/Martin.

man, 2002-05-06 kl. 02:41 skrev Not Zed:
> > 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.
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