Re: HTML in emails

On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 23:12 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:44:29PM +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > It is nice to be able to format emails nicely, but you have to realise > > when to restrain yourself. I've been getting loads of emails from Adobe > > lately that haven't been formatted well at all, and appear awfully in my > > email client (Evolution, which I consider to be a very good client) until > > I download all the images they've used as backgrounds. It's situations > > like this that give HTML emails an awful name. > > Isn't this a popular exploit these days? I don't really watch these > things since I use Linux and view mail as straight text. But isn't there > some current exploit where images which can be downloaded as part of an > email actually contain code which can be used to sniff your system or > somesuch? > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > Probably if you're using Outlook I'd imagine so. I think the primary use of images in an email is to track who has read it, as you can reference an image like http://www.somedomain.com/image.php?id=123456 . That's why I have them turned off by default, and hence why Adobes mails always look awful. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk