[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Mon Jan 4 19:37:32 EST 2010


In article <00be4158$0$23471$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote:
> 
> > Although I have remote images disabled in Apple Mail, one of those 
> > supermarkets does manage to send me a graphical display by means of 
> > multiple attachments.
> > 
> > I haven't yet worked out what happened, but shortly after viewing one of 
> > those emails, my firewall chalked up a load of attempts by that very 
> > same supermarket to access port 80 on my laptop. Coincidence, I think 
> > not.
> 
> 
> That is why I want an email client that has a "view source" function.
> Not sure if the Mail.App has it. That is why I use Thunderbird.
> Thunkderbird is easrier to configure to disable all the crap, whereas
> Mail.App seems to be "glitz must be ON" type of application which I
> don't trust.

Mail.app can view source too (View - Message - Raw Source).

I just need to set time aside to analyse it...

I took a distinct disliking to Thunderbird some years ago.

-- 
Paul Sture



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