On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:08:12AM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día lunes, noviembre 23, 2020 a las 03:03:54a. m. +0100, Johan Wevers > escribió: > > > On 22-11-2020 12:38, Juergen Bruckner via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > > > I don't understand why HTML in e-Mails is so important for some people. > > > > I agree on a personal level, but if you use your email also to > > communicate with business users (usually using Outlook) it would be nice > > to get their mails in a human readable format. Which requires, > > unfortunately, usually html. > > Since ages human read mails in ASCII or UTF-8 text. Why you think this > is not a "human readable format"? > > HTML as e-mail (read carefully: as email, not as attachment) should be > forbidden because most MUA automatically fetch additional remote content > which violates privacy and can fetch bad content into your system. > You're warned.
I consider that Mutt gives me the best of both, when I configure it: auto_view text/html and in .mailcap: text/html; \ lynx -dump -force_html %s; \ copiousoutput The text is flattened. The result is sometimes ugly, but readable. Attachments (such as images, or things purporting to be images) are presented separately, and I can open them if I choose. (Or I can copy them out and inspect them in other ways, if I'm suspicious. Examining the un-rendered structure and content of some malicious messages can be briefly entertaining.) I would be mildly surprised to learn that my co-workers, outside of my immediate workgroup, are even aware that I don't see their emails rendered the way they do. And nobody has ever told me, "your message looks funny," except an occasional comment that someone couldn't open the "attachment" (meaning the PGP/MIME signature). Those stopped when I got a corporate X.509 certificate and configured Mutt to use S/MIME for internal mail. Other console MUAs probably can do similar things when configured to do so. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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