Re: [Evolution] show pictures as default

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > - Russell's warning is somewhat negative, but might become the truth.
>
> My concern is that if gnome/linux take over the world as we all hope
> they will I don't want us to be in the same boat as MS are in now with
> Outlook.
>
> I assert that we need to be careful about the functionality we build
> into applications and weigh up the pros and cons carefully before adding
> things that may be open to abuse.

Sure -- that's how I understood your warning. You are very right with
that point.

It should be safe to only display non-script date, like images. Active
contents (scripts) should never be interpreted. <comment> HTML does not
belong to mails (ok, we can discuss that ;-), but scripts really don't.
</comment>

Although even displaying images can be 'risky' with buffer overflows. It
was already mentioned here (sorry, don't remember who that said).


> As a matter of interest would someone from Ximian care to list what
> types of attachment "auto display" works for.

I second that, would be interesting.

...guenther


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