JavaScript considered harmful

[Gerhard Häring]

Le 08/01/02 ? 22:00, Michael P. Soulier écrivit:
> On 8 Jan 2002 22:24:53 +0100, Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote:
> > what i do not like is HTML mail with external links... this way the 1 pixel 
> > (or larger) image can be used to identify you by email address. (and get 
> > your mail on the "verified" lists)
> > 
> > a filtering proxy does help agains some of the collectors but there are 
> > just too many out there.
> > 
> > any real solutions availble?
> 
> HTML mail is a problem. I don't support it, and neither does my email client.
> [...] I'll stick with Mutt. 

So will I. And my mutt can read HTML mail just fine in case somebody
inexperienced uses such a waste of bandwidth:

Put this into your .muttrc:

    # view annoying html mail inline
    auto_view text/html
    # if plain text and html prefer plain text
    alternative_order text/plain text/enriched text/html

and this into your .mailcap (enable lynx or w3m depending on installed
text-mode browser; I have w3m, it does tables, too):

    #text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html %s; needsterminal
    #text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html %s; copiousoutput
    text/html;      w3m -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput

Gerhard
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