What's the safest email browser?




Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:47:44 GMT
"Santo Quartarone" <quartarone1@rogers.com>
email browser?
"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

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:24:36 -0400
Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Re: email browser?
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...


Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:21:07 -0600
"Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@qwest.net>
Re: email browser?
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.

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:04:57 -0500
Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Re: email browser?
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 22:47, Santo Quartarone wrote:
> What's the safest email browser?
> 
> 

telnet mailserver.domain.tld 110

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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:29:57 +1000
John Hansen <john@geeknet.com.au>
Re: email browser?