1. Re: Mangling of mails
- Posted by Euler German <efgerman at myrealbox.com> Jan 22, 2003
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Hi J=FCrgen, Jim, On 22 Jan 2003, at 12:39, Juergen Luethje wrote: > > Hello Jim, you wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:46:01PM +0100, Juergen Luethje wrote: > > <snipped by a human> > :) > > I know 2 technical ways to have both text and HTML versions of the > message in the same e-mail: > - "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" > > - "Content-Type: multipart/mixed" > Here the HTML version is attached to the text version. > (Of course, "multipart/mixed" can be also any other kind of > attachment.) > I'll put these on my MailWasher. > And this is HTML only: > - "Content-Type: text/html" > Already there. :) > > While this is not as big a risk for viruses perhaps (tho it could be, > > since there is HTML in the email), > > AFAIK any HTML can contain a virus or a worm. And the risk of activating > a virus mainly depends on the mail client on which the mail is opened, > and what options the user of the client uses. And most of us know this > M$-express-virus-replication mail clients. > I use Pegasus Mail (http://www.pmail.com) the best, most secure, and powerful eMail client I ever found. And it's FREE for every use! I use v3.12c though there's already a v4.02 that seems to be alot better and fancier. The sad note to some of our fellows (Jim?) is that's Windows only. Anyway, if you want to make sure, there's a test (safe) at http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/ that will expose all your client's weaknesses. Another one is to use a *good* eMail service. MyRealBox is a very good webmail service with POP3/IMAP/SMTP and a very effective anti-virus and spam filter. I use it from a long time ago with no complains. Well, they freeze from time to time (short periods) as it's a test bed for Novell's NIMS system. > > > Hence my modifed signature, which has the '*' in it, > I'm curious too. Nevertheless, I copied it. ;) BTW, all undocumented snips made by me. :) Kind regards, -- Euler German -- /"\ The ASCII ribbon | Euler GERMAN \ / campaign against HTML | Caixa Postal 232 X eMail, HTML news, and | 35701-970 Sete Lagoas, MG, Brasil /*\ unneeded MIME. | PGP key ID: 0x92D7247F