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Re: Mangling of mails

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com Jan 23, 2003
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:54:50PM -0200, Euler German wrote:
>
> Hi J?rgen, 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.

Thats ok, aside from Wine, there are similiar email clients available for
Linux,
in any case I'm perfectly happy with Mutt, which aside from being easy for
someone
like me to use, is console, and hence, very fast and lightweight. (Like
most
console programs, it loads very quickly ... unlike GUI programs which
often
load up a "Loading .... Please Wait" banner :/)

> 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. ;)
>

Like I said, its to make it separate from Juergen's one, which is only
against HTML, while mine also is against needless MIME.

> BTW, all undocumented snips made by me. :)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> -- Euler German

jbrown

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