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  3. August 2006

Re: RFC-822 gurus - Do spammers know when we deletetheir mail

Booth Martin wrote:

This raises a question.  Thunderbird shows the message in the preview
pane but only as regular text, unless the sender is in my address book
or is a sender I have said I trust.

Does that protect me from the issues being discussed?


It should ... although keep in mind that the most dangerous email
viruses use spoofed email addresses, so it might be dangerous even if
it's from someone you know.

I don't *THINK* that tbird uses the same rendering engine that IE /
Outlook does ... so the common exploits are ineffectual.

david

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