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Re: email browser?

От
Chris Browne
Дата:
"Santo Quartarone" <quartarone1@rogers.com> writes:
> What's the safest email browser?

less is pretty safe, more or less ;-).

You didn't specify what sort of platform you wanted to use; the
choices vary, considerably, between platforms.
-- 
(format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "cbbrowne.com")
http://cbbrowne.com/info/oses.html
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" 
-- <leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de>, Felix von Leitner


Re: email browser?

От
"Scott Marlowe"
Дата:
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:24, Chris Browne wrote:
> "Santo Quartarone" <quartarone1@rogers.com> writes:
> > What's the safest email browser?
> 
> less is pretty safe, more or less ;-).
> 
> You didn't specify what sort of platform you wanted to use; the
> choices vary, considerably, between platforms.

I'd say pine is pretty darned safe...



Re: email browser?

От
Bruno Wolff III
Дата:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 19:21:07 -0600, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@qwest.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:24, Chris Browne wrote:
> > "Santo Quartarone" <quartarone1@rogers.com> writes:
> > > What's the safest email browser?
> > 
> > less is pretty safe, more or less ;-).
> > 
> > You didn't specify what sort of platform you wanted to use; the
> > choices vary, considerably, between platforms.
> 
> I'd say pine is pretty darned safe...

While both pine and mutt have had remote exploit bugs in the past, they
are probably your safeest alternatives. I prefer mutt as it is more
configurable and has a faster to use (IMO) interface than pine.