Re: Looking HTML messages

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:43:15 +0700
Syafril Hermansyah <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:25:37 +0100 Vicente Werner (VW) wrote:
> 
> > I wonder when we'll be able to view html messages with embedded images
> > correctly.
> 
> It will make your system vulnerable, because sometimes part of HTML
> images must be download from Internet (your browser will fire up
> connection to Internet).
> IMHO keep it as now, please.

Some mail readers (e.g., Mozilla, Eudora, etc.) have an option to display HTML, but *not* fetch any content that isn't contained in the mail message itself.  So if the image is in the message, it would get displayed.  If not, it doesn't.  This seems to work pretty well.

-pd



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