[Mimedefang] HTML stripped from email

Cormack, Ken kcormack at acs.roadway.com
Fri Jul 18 10:16:01 EDT 2003


As you described, is the way it works for me.  For example, I get my "Daily
Dilbert" cartoon in my inbox each day.  All <img src=...> tags are defanged
and I dont see the actual cartoon, but HTML declarations that can be
rendered without the resources of an external web server, such as background
color, and all text, remain intact.

I assume the reason for this kind of behavior is to eliminate "beacons".  If
a spammer includes a reference to a resource on his web server, and can
match up your email address with an entry in his web server logs, then
you've just confirmed for the spammer that your email address is valid.

By defanging HTML <img src=...> tags, your client wont query his web server
by simply viewing your mail.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy R. LeBouef [mailto:troy at lebouef.com]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:35 AM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] HTML stripped from email


The HTML::Parser module should it parse the HTML and reconstruct it or pull
the graphics out of the email and leave you with text. Is this the proper
operation of module ?  Say for instence a news letter that has html graphs
in it, well the graphs are stripped out and you only have the text. Is this
the way it should work ? and if so why ??
 
Thanks is advance .... Just trying to check on the proper operation of the
system, any thoughts ??

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Troy R. LeBouef 
	Sent: Thu 7/17/2003 6:11 PM 
	To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] HTML stripped from email
	
	

	I think its the HTML::Parser module ??
	
	        -----Original Message-----
	        From: Troy R. LeBouef
	        Sent: Thu 7/17/2003 5:47 PM
	        To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
	        Cc:
	        Subject: [Mimedefang] HTML stripped from email
	       
	       
	
	        I have modified the original mimedefang-filter and remarked
out remove_redundent_html_parts in the filter.
	        I can't receive any html mail. I receive the mail and all of
the HTML is stripped out. Is there an easy fix for this being that I wish to
receive HTML text.
	       
	                What can I do to fix this any help would be most
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
	       
	       
	
	




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