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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Disable mailcap support
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:47:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brt31d3y.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030929180434.GA4835@deneb.enyo.de>

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> Why should we a priori consider, say, xdvi less safe than some of the
>> libraries (libpng, libtiff, zlib etc.) that Emacs is built against?
>
> xdvi can invoke Netscape or Mozilla, the libraries don't do _that_. 8-)
>
> But I see your point.

I'm not sure I understand your point about mailcap.  Could you
explain it a bit more?

I'd have thought disabling mailcap is less safe.  When you launch an
attachment through mailcap an attempt is made to use a safe viewer
with the safest options -- this isn't the case if you save it to disk
and launch it in a different way (command line or double-clicking).

> Maybe image support should be disabled, too?  At least the pictures
> should not be shown by default (certainly a good idea anyway because
> of some junk mail).

In my experience almost all junk mail that includes pictures are
text/html, so this is something that should be configured in the HTML
renderer.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-29 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-28 16:11 Florian Weimer
2003-09-28 22:56 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-29 18:04   ` Florian Weimer
2003-09-29 21:47     ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-11-09 15:35       ` Florian Weimer
2004-01-03 19:28       ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-29 19:35 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-29 21:27   ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-30 18:04     ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-30 23:37       ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-02 18:02         ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-02 22:25           ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-03 18:10             ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-17 17:17           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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