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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 18:35, Martin Moeller wrote:
> 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?

Is it moving a message to a local folder?  No.  As listed below quite
explictly, this ONLY applies to INDEXING.  All other operations are
performed for just viewing a message, even if you dont view it. 
Although an IMAP attachment may not go through this processing till you
try to do something with it (including saving it).

There is no server-side filtering in evolution, so if the message is
required for filtering (e.g. body-content or full-header matching), then
it will be downloaded and processed similarly.  It wont be indexed
though.


> 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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