On 08/08/2010 02:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: <snip> > But this is just a declaration. The message doesn't actually contain any > html code, AFAICS. Things like <head>, <body>, and other tags. there is a difference between 'html code' and 'html format'. web pages work with 'html format', email works with 'html code'. 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;' is *not* what i filter on. op's message was marked as 'multipart' and actually has *3* parts; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Type: t e x t/h t m l; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" my filter is set for 'Content-Type: t e x t/h t m l' my message was marked as 'multipart' and has *3* parts, but no html; Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > As I understood, html messages are frowned upon because they waste space > and bandwidth, and because they might contain javascripts and stuff that is > problematic security-wise. this is true and one of reasons why i filter them. > But if the message body just doesn't contain any html tags at all, it *does* have 'html tags' when written as html. > why does a "multipart/mixed" declaration in the header make it html? it does not. see above. > IOW, shouldn't the mail filter (generic one, I'm not talking specifically > about g's mail filter) check the actual contents of the message for html > stuff, rather than just blindly trust the message header? my filter works in *body*, not 'header' and looks for full phrase. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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