[imp] HTML Mail

[Rich Lafferty]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:31:36PM -0500, Craig M. Dupree (cdupree@csr.utexas.edu) wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> 
> > Yep, it's a MUST according to section 4 of RFC 2045. A message without
> > the MIME-Version header is not a MIME message, and is thus rendered as
> > plain text -- that is, the Content-Type header isn't meaningful
> > because non-MIME messages don't have MIME types. :-)
> 
> Well, at least I have something to work with now.
> 
> On a related note, what is the impact of having HTML displayed in-line.

We try to clean up as much as possible, but it is to an extent a
contest between our filtering out active content (Javascript, for
instance) and malevolent sorts finding new ways to hide it. 2.2.6
fixed a way to hide it, for instance. 

HTML-inline mail also lets senders know that recipients read their
mail, by putting an "image bug" in -- they see the hit for the image,
they know the message was opened.

There's a few other problems along those lines. Putting the HTML in an
attachment doesn't /solve/ them, but it does mean that you can open
the message without triggering them.

  -Rich

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