[plug] email message formats - was Re: [plug] Urgent Sale...sorry about the repeat post

[Bret Busby]

Scott wrote:
> 
> Actually it came out perfectly on mine i guess that is because i am using OE
> as well. Does anyone know of a linux version that can download hotmail as
> well , I don't.
> I also use Netscape on my linux box and i have never had any problems
> recieving OE mail except that it has a white background.
> I am not sure if it is the senders problem your mail reader is not up to the
> task of decoding the message properly.
> 
> Scott

If you use Netscape on Linux, do you have the View->View Attachments
Inline flag set?

To have that set, from what I understand, is dangerous, as, if an email
contains malicious code, it is automatically run, when viewing the
email, whereas, having the switch turned off, should avoid that, but
causes messages that are not plain text, to be regarded as attachments,
apart from pure HTML, which displays as web pages (which is infuriating,
when people send emails as web pages, and, I waste time waiting for
messages to display as HTML output).

If you are going to use an email provider that is a subsidiary of
Microsoft, do you really expect to be able to access it, with a Linux
based web browser? from what I understand, yahoo provides a decent free
email service, and, I do not know that it is oriented toward Microsoft.

I have received Outlook, and, Outlook Express, messages, without any
problems, when the message senders have set the application up to send
in plain text format.

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Bret Busby

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