"Rick Macdonald wrote:" > > On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > > > : Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message. > > > > Actually, that depends upon your E'mail system. [...] > > > > ...but that's a hole in Microsoft mail. Obviously, this kind of thing > > could not be done via the standard Unix mail system (unless you had a > > MIME-aware mail reader that was willing to run Java code for you... > > Oooops!) > > Actually... > > I don't use emacs for email, but apparently its mail reader uses the emacs > "enable-local-variables" feature. And, apparently, some mischief can be > done by this mechanism. [...] > > Perhaps someone on the list is more familiar with this issue and emacs > mail.
See Linux Journal #24 (April 1996) for an interesting article on this and related topics. Nutshell synopsis: be *very* careful with your MIME mail setup! -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux
