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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#35161 acknowledged by developer (HTML mail rendering in right click menu)
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-23 14:10:12
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On Friday 23 November 2001 14:53, Mariusz Pekala wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if that's not what you say, but:
> More secure would be to have this mail rendered as HTML but no links would
> be followed (maybe only if they are links to images? or text/plain?) and no
> scripts would be executed.

Links are only followed if you click on them and they are not dangerous.

External references in the mail like images are only loaded, when this feature 
is enabled. This is a privacy issue, since the sender of a spam mail knows 
that you read it, if you request the images.

Scripts are never executed.

HTML as such is more dangerous, than plain text, because it is more likely, 
that there exist bugs that cause a crash when displaying it.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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