Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:09:11AM +0930, Alphax wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
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I currently use Mutt (a CLI email client), but not long ago I was getting list traffic through Thunderbird (a GUI email client). Even so, I was using "simplified HTML" settings that did not display images at all. The end result was that all that prettified HTML formatting spammers used was gone, as were inlined images. Although Thunderbird did a reasonably good job of turning HTML email into what looked like text-only email, it still rendered some HTML-formatted email into gibberish. Luckily, what it handled fairly well was email produced in email clients that had HTML formatting turned on by default -- which is all I really needed it to do, so that I could read emails from people who just didn't know any better.
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Spam filters are fairly good these days. Thunderbird disables all images in HTML by default, unless you click "display" or add the sender to your address book, and HTML is disabled in spam by default.
. . . and I always check the directory to which I redirect spam to ensure that nothing in there is something I should actually be receiving.
In what version of Thunderbird do these default settings occur?
Well, I think it's the default - I'm using Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206), but maybe I had to enable it in Options/Advanced/Privacy.
My supply of spam seems to have dried up. Lucky me.