[luau] Re: Checking E-mail in Linux

[Eric Jeschke]

Re: Checking E-mail in Linux

This article contains many other inaccuracies.  Pine, for example,
displays attachments just fine using any external viewer you like: I
view image attachments all the time from within pine using ImageMagick's
"display".  He also says that Pine doesn't display HTML.  Bzzzt!  It
doesn't display images and such, but HTML text is rendered fine without
the tags showing.

Two good things he did point out are that it is extremely
virus-resistant and it has excellent search capabilities.  Two things I
think he should have added are that you can configure it to use any
editor that you like and that it has good filtering capabilities built
in.  

ps. BTW hasn't everyone figured out that it's "email" and not "e-mail"?
Once the word becomes accepted into the lexicon...  I just wonder when
everyone will agree that "mail" is "email"; I suppose then we'll need
"pmail".

--Eric

| Dear Charles Wolrich of Forbes,
| 
| Thank you very much for putting Linux in the spotlight in a series of
| articles.  I wanted to point out a misunderstanding in the article
| "Checking E-mail in Linux" within the following paragraph.
| 
| http://www.forbes.com/2002/07/18/0718tentech.html
| 
| "This is the only one of the three e-mail clients that deals with
| attachments well. We could open the Word document as an attachment in a
| text editor, preview our picture and save it to disk. It does, however, have
| problems with embedded images, which we weren't able to get it to
| display."
| 
| Evolution purposefully does not display HTML embedded images for your
| own protection.  Often many HTML spam that people receive contains uniquely
| identifiable names within the IMG SRC tags.  This means that if you view
| the e-mail, they are able to track you and know that your e-mail address is
| valid, thus you receive even more spam.
| 

-- 
Eric Jeschke
http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke