On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:56 pm, Russ wrote: > Again, I must respectfully disagree with you. Unless they can come up with > another way to dress up plain ol text between friends and family, it will > stay. Most people want eye candy and without it they will move on. Linux > does not need the various GUI's to operate, but in order to get more people > on board it is necessary to make it more flashy and the same goes with > email. It does not need flashy to work but that is what many many many many > people want. You can rant and rave about it all you want but that is life. > It is not about what makes it work but about what people want. > > Yes there are security risks involved but anytime you make things easier, > you risk security. > There are many who believe that people that want to use those kinds of features should not be using a computer, and at a minimum should not be using Linux. It is a snobbish sort of approach. Although there are some good points in the arguments, people are willing to take the risk for the eye-candy, so as long as they are educated to the risk and are willing to accept it, then I say so be it.
As for kmail, you can create html mails by specifying a different editor for composing mail. How I deal with the security risks of html mail is with filters that whitelist people I trust. If I receive an html e-mail from somebody not on my trusted list, it gets sent to a different folder that displays everything as plain text, so it can be examined without rendering the html. If the sender is on the list, the message is forwarded to my inbox. -- Greg
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