[pmmail-list] HTML mail again (was: PMMail 2000 Update)

[Dave Hathaway]

Hi John,

Perhaps I should have said HTML has enabled the exploitation of
vulnerabilities in other products.  I don't think I would receive
these would-be viruses if HTML was not in emails.  I don't think
70-column-width plain text is ever going to be a virus threat. :)

Outlook's implementation of HTML is the problem.

Dave


--- John Swartzentruber <johnslists@mcswartz.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2002 09:39:14 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hathaway wrote:
> 
> >Third, I don't know about y'all, but I am getting a ton of these
> >stupid 120K HTML virus messages.  I mean, one account gets a dozen
> or
> >more of these every day.  I'm getting these because the popularity
> of
> >HTML mail has made it possible.
> 
> I agree with most of your points, but I'm not sure about this. I
> mean,
> obviously it is true on one level, but you could blame SMTP as
> well,
> and you wouldn't argue to get rid of that.
> 
> Is HTML mail really the problem, or is it Outlook's HTML mail? Even
> if
> PMMail had full HTML support (whatever that means) but not script
> support, would it be more vulnerable to these worms and viruses?


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