On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > I just discovered at least a partial cure for my > seeming inability to receive HTML messages, or > at least some of them. Often when trying to > .... > . > . > .mailcap file containing the following command: > text/html; /usr/bin/htmlview -dump %s ; copiousoutput The problem with that, is that you are letting any unknown email source run the htmlview shell script on your system, a serious security hole (it's well known that making shell scripts secure is difficult to the point of being impractical or impossible). And html mail is inherently risky anyway -- I refuse to use browser based email clients for that reason, as do many other security conscious people. If you really must view the html part of a message (usually deletion is the right option), why not use a text based email client that can do a decent job of rendering the text part of it, (like "pine", for instance), for that message? > Whether we like it or not, Linux is going GUI, > folks. Text mode is already a poor relation and > it'll get poorer, just as it did when DOS with > Windows ... I'll answer this in faq format. Question: The fear that the GUI will somehow obsolete the text mode environment comes up on this list from time to time, so I won't go into much detail ... again. Answer: The text part of linux continues to get richer, with more apps, and will continue to do so: it can never go away. It is absolutely essential, for many reasons, for all users. Search the list archives for more about why, read the blinux faq, which also gives some sense of why, however brief (someone should improve on that, and submit it Hans for inclusion, so that threads like this will disappear), and here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html, which should help with understanding the issues. GUI apps can never tap more than a small part of the real power available through the text, scripting, and utility environments (kind of like lego style building block program modules -- hundreds of them are standard in any distribution, and who knows how many thousands are available on archive sites, with more every day -- you can't even boot normally without maybe a hundred or so of these running). The consequence is that NOT having access to the GUI could actually lead on a fast track to superior competency and functionality for many users, though the learning curve is higher. So a print-disabled/VI user may actually be a premium hire for an employer, in a linux environment: one of the things slowing the amazing rate of adoption of linux in the business environment is the shortage of competent linux knowledgable personnel, beyond the GUI. LCR P.S., Hans, if you want to include the last part of this answer in the FAQ, till something better shows up, it's fine with me. Sorry I can't work it into more suitable form right now. -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list