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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

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