Re: html message handling in pan-0.120

Duncan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Anuj Verma (Kevin)" <[email protected]>
posted [email protected], excerpted below, on  Fri, 19 Jan 2007
20:05:51 +0000:

> Recently I have started to use PAN for mail2news again, and I notice that
> any of the HTML messages displays as HTML code rather then easy to read
> messages.
> 
> Are there any workarounds ? or any plans to have this fixed in upcoming
> versions, I certainly did not checked with any other version of Pan but
> one shipped for Fedora 6.

I believe it's a pretty clear "NO".  GNKSA may cover this I'm not sure,
but the general feeling is that HTML belongs on the web, not in mail or
news, where it's the tool of spammers, malware authors, and aoler types
who either don't know or don't care about the security and other
implications.

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