Re: spam mails using image/gif in multipart/alternative

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Dec 08 2005, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>>>>> In <v94q5j5m1q.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reiner Steib wrote:
>
>> Maybe we should even add "image/.*" in the default?
>
> It would be nice.  Actually, I've been doing so all the time and
> recommended it to folks several times.

I've used the following up to now:

(setq
 mm-discouraged-alternatives
 '("text/html" "text/richtext" "text/enriched" "multipart/related")
 mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display)
 gnus-buttonized-mime-types '(".*/signed"))

I newer saw legitimate preferred image/.* parts in
multipart/alternative, but I hesitate to make such change based on my
usage only.  If everyone agrees with this, we could change the
default.  (Only in the trunk or in v5-10 too?  Is it a bug that Gnus
displays image/* spam?)  Opinions?

> My setting is:
>
> (setq gnus-buttonized-mime-types
>       '("multipart/alternative" "multipart/signed")
>       mm-discouraged-alternatives
>       '("image/.+"))

Interesting idea!  It allows to pick the alternative (text, html, gif)
an displays the plain/text at first:

,----
| 1.  (*) multipart/alternative  ( ) image/gif           
| 
| 2.  (*) text/plain          ( ) text/html           
`----

Could you please add this suggestion as an example to the manual?
(Maybe we write "/.*" instead of "/.+" as in other places; the
difference might confuse newbies.  Or we could change everything to
"/.+" which is slightly more exact.)

Bye, Reiner.
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