[22322] in bugtraq
Re: HTML email "bug", of sorts.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Haar)
Mon Aug 20 11:20:46 2001
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:57:59 +1200
From: Jason Haar <Jason.Haar@trimble.co.nz>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20010820165759.A14189@trimble.co.nz>
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On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:17:25AM -0400, Alex Prestin wrote:
> So, anyone have any idea of how to deal with this latest little spammer
> toy? Is there any effective way to filter out web bugs without adversely
> affecting the delivery intact of legitimate messages? Could software
> change to at least warn viewers that this HTML viewer is accessing offsite
> content? Is it worth doing?
This is a client problem that needs to be supported there. For example,
Kmail - the KDE Mailer - has a "download remote URLs" checkbox. Simply
turning that off stops HTML mail messages from having things like <img> tags
being activated.
Under Outlook, this isn't possible.
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Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
