[imp] No Inline Images.

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:22:39 -0500 (EST)


Quoting Rick Romero <rick@valeoinc.com>:

> Ahhh...Makes much more sense.   The only thing I found relating 
> to images was a privacy issue. (Since you request the image, 
> technically, the server knows where you came from.)

Right... and this isn't an issue for this case, since the image is being
requested right out of the email message - you're loading it from the same
server that IMP is running on.

> The only other thing I can think of, that affects Win32 progs, would 
> be to recieve a image.jpg.exe.  You would usually see image.jpg in 
> your attachment window, but it would be executed.  Of course, that 
> wouldn't work here..

? Can you elaborate on this a bit? Will IE really execute programs disguised as
jpgs and linked to through an <img> tag??

-chuck

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