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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:38:11 +0000 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > > K9 Mail can do both plain text and bottom posting. |
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> > > Both set in Account settings/Sending mail. |
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> > It can write but forces html onto users, which potentially includes |
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> > jpg exploits, png exploits, html exploits, script exploits, font |
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> > exploits... |
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> What are you talking about? K9 forces HTML on no one, it sends plain |
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> text if you set it to do so. |
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If you receive a html email you have no choice but to execute code to |
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handle as per my above examples. |
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> > Having knocked Android, I haven't found the time to try the latest |
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> > native email app. I'm not expecting a no html option but I'm pretty |
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> > sure it will have some major pluses over k9mail, which was a trade |
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> > of good for bad on Gingerbread. |
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> K9 is not Android, any more than yourfavouriteemailer is Linux. It is |
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> a program that runs on Android. As for being less capable than the |
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> native app, the opposite is the case as it is based on the code from |
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> the native app, but actively developed. |
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Googles mail is part of android and they do maintain it. I maintain |
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that while k9 has some improvements it also breaks things and I guess |
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would have not seen light without Googles initial efforts. |
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