From: Patric Mueller <bhaak@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: emacs-w3m
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 03:36:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lz665nurpm.fsf@bhaak.xodox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k7u43fkv.fsf@bang.priv.no>
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>>>>>> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard):
>
>> [Florian Weimer]
>>> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>>> > Why don't we use emacs-w3m for converting text/html parts on Gnus?
>
>>> Using w3m might have some nasty security implications (much like the
>>> embedded Internet Explorer in Microsoft Outlook).
>
>> Please elaborate. :-)
>
> I'm guessing he's referring to the trick of spammers using HTML emails
> with <img> tags, to verify email addresses.
>
> (The URL in the "src" attribute of the <img> tag contains an unique
> identifier for a particular receipient address)
>
In that case, why do you use an html _browser_?
An html to text converter would be sufficient to display html mails.
I use my own program (vilistextum) for this very purpose but html2text
should do as well.
http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/bhaak/vilistextum/
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html
Bye
Patric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-28 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-24 2:38 emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-01-24 2:51 ` emacs-w3m Daniel Pittman
2002-01-24 3:26 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-01-24 6:11 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-01-25 13:29 ` emacs-w3m Niels Olof Bouvin
2002-01-25 18:15 ` emacs-w3m Josh Huber
2002-01-26 2:40 ` emacs-w3m Jinhyok Heo
2002-01-26 3:07 ` emacs-w3m ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-24 13:37 ` emacs-w3m Per Abrahamsen
2002-01-24 11:28 ` emacs-w3m Jinhyok Heo
2002-01-25 1:28 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-01-25 2:34 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-01-25 3:05 ` emacs-w3m Jinhyok Heo
2002-01-25 2:41 ` emacs-w3m Jinhyok Heo
2002-01-24 22:19 ` emacs-w3m Florian Weimer
2002-01-24 22:49 ` emacs-w3m François Pinard
2002-01-26 22:36 ` emacs-w3m Steinar Bang
2002-01-28 2:36 ` Patric Mueller [this message]
2002-01-28 11:32 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-01-31 15:48 ` emacs-w3m Dirk Meyer
2002-02-01 8:09 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-02-06 13:29 ` emacs-w3m Dirk Meyer
2002-02-12 18:45 ` emacs-w3m Florian Weimer
2002-02-12 19:27 ` emacs-w3m François Pinard
2002-01-24 23:10 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-01-27 1:33 ` emacs-w3m Raja R Harinath
2002-01-28 1:30 ` emacs-w3m Katsumi Yamaoka
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