242209 - Can't disable HTML emails.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Alexander C. Zorach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031130

For a project as big as mozilla, it is a gaping hole that you cannot disable
HTML emails.  HTML emails with indexed images are the #1 tool spammers use to
validate email addresses.  Sometimes I can't judge whether a message is spam or
not until I actually click on it, and this opens up a security hole of allowing
the sender to track me.  In addition to this major security hole, I find HTML
emails annoying.  I think it's a horrid, gaping hole in mozilla that you don't
give the option of disabling it.  It blows my mind that you've let this simple
thing go so long even as you have added so many other advanced features.  This
is a major security issue that should be addressed immediately.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look in the preferences dialog box
Actual Results:  
There is no option to disable HTML emails.

Expected Results:  
The software should have given me an option to disable HTML emails, and then it
should have disabled them.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

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