[H-GEN] Open source firm releases patch for IE spoofing flaw

[David Seikel]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:32 pm, Greg Black wrote:
> Nonetheless, I can't imagine that Unix users, even if they do
> use POP or IMAP to fetch email from accounts on their ISP's box,
> can't pre-process that email on their home system in a fairly
> straightforward manner.  If it's really difficult, then it would
> make an excellent topic for a Humbug talk and a web page built
> on that.

I'm sure I made this point last time, but it is worth repeating.

Sometimes there is no choice but to use a crappy or dumb email client.  I 
suffer from that problem.  I have no Internet access of my own, so I use 
whatever access I can beg or borrow.  Sometimes everything is fine and dandy 
and I can use the full range of Unix email tools to do what I need to do via 
POP and SMTP from my own computer.  The email client I use has a "Reply to 
mailing list" button, so I have no problem with what ever the Reply-To 
headers say.  I used it for this email.

Other times I either have a firewall to deal with, or I am using someone elses 
computer that allows web surfing only (Internet cafe, Salvo's, HUMBUG 
meetings, etc).  In those cases I have to use a web based email client, which 
are typically very, um, "basic".  Much manual typing of list addresses can be 
the result.

On the other hand, there are people that would rather be using Unix, but have 
no choice but to use popular non Unix based OS's that shall remain nameless.

So I can imagine Unix users that can't pre-process their email, or do anything 
else fancy.