[pmmail-list] HTML formatting

[Richard Grevers]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 07:48:26 -0600, John Thompson 
<John.Thompson@attglobal.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:46:28 +0100
> "Paul D.J. de Vos" <vbvos@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> This thread has been going on for so long that I
>> can't remember whether BSW ever answered the only
>> question which is really to the point in my view:
>>
>> Are there any RISKS involved in having PMMAIL
>> display HTML messages?
>
> IIRC, the Windows version of PMMAIL uses IE's rendering engine so the
> risks involved in displaying HTML mail would be dependent on the risks
> inherent in whatever version of IE you happen to have installed.
>
Not true, afaik. PMMail's HTML rendering on windows is very limited - 
basically RTF processing.
It certainly doesn't execute scripts, nor will it request non-embedded 
images (webbugs).
In fact half the time it even gets the background colour wrong, but that is 
usually when trying to render the XML mishmash that MSWord spews when a 
luser selects "send as email".

-- 
Richard Grevers
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