On Friday 05 September 2008, Alan Gauld wrote: <...> > The argument to the contrary is simple enough - its not secure and > vulnerable to 'virus' type attack. For that reason many corporate > firewalls > trap or even prevent its delivery. (This is due to the ability to > embed > script tags with VBScript functions that on a suitably enabled PVC > can access the local hard drive, etc) Sounds like nothing much has changed in 5 years. I did a project like this in 1993 with another programming language despite my reservations and had the client sign a "Hold Harmless" doc before I proceeded. > OTOH if they insist I assume(I've never looked at the spec for HTML > mail) > that its just a case of inserting a boilerplate header and then adding > styling > tags to the message text. After that you should be able to send as > plain text... I've already looked at some recipes that send both html and text as an alternative.... there's one at http://code.activestate.com/recipes/67083/
> However it might be easier (and is definitely safer) to send an HTML > file as a mime attachment which gives the recipient some control over > how/when it is opened. But if mime is OK you could use PDF which > is safer still and the best format for when accurate layout needs to > be transmitted in a portable format. Unfortunately there are now > programs which can edit PDFs which has somewhat destroyed > their value as a read-only document format for contracts, invoices I'm inclined to encourage the client to spend his money on something else :-) Thanks as always, Alan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
