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Filtering out HTML (Score:1)

by dws (341)

I discard all email that's HTML only, and have never (to my knowledge, and I check the discard pile once a week) had a false positive. YMMV.
- Re:Filtering out HTML (Score:2)
  
  by vsergu (505)
  
  Do you have friends you send you mail from Hotmail or MSN accounts? They changed a while back to make it impossible (or possibly only much harder) to avoid sending HTML only. I think SpamAssassin's default rules even got modified to avoid the HTML-only penalty for messages from there.
  
  Although now that I think of it, I haven't noticed any of those messages in a couple of months. Maybe they changed back.
View this message? [Y/n] (Score:1)

by Juerd (1796)

I don't know which MUA it was, but I did see one once that asked for every HTML message if the user really wanted to see it.

Perhaps you can make your client do this.

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