Fw: How to kill OL2000 ability to render html mail

From: Peter Mercer (peter@petersplace.com)
Date: 12/21/02

  • Next message: Keith Purtell: "RE: How to kill OL2000 ability to render html mail" 
    From: "Peter Mercer" <peter@petersplace.com>
To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:43:45 +1100

    Anything like what has come through but for Outlook Express? So that all
    mail is viewed in plain text. Stop Klez and so.

    Thanks
    Peter
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Bill Mote" <bill.mote@mem.com>
    To: <jre@eavessolutions.com>; <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
    Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:08 PM
    Subject: Re: How to kill OL2000 ability to render html mail

    > Jeffrey,
    >
    > There's a .dll you can download called NoHTML for Outlook. It's very
    small
    > and the installation is a snap. In OL2000 it converts HTML documents to
    > either plain text or rich text. Can't remember which. Anyway, I went
    > looking for something after our webmaster account started receiving SPAM
    > letting me know that "Michelle was waiting for me" in full HTML glory =)
    >
    > Here's the link:
    > http://www.der-keiler.de/Mailing-Lists/NT-Bugtraq/2001-12/0000.html
    >
    > Bill
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Jeffrey R Eaves" <jre@eavessolutions.com>
    > To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
    > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 7:08 PM
    > Subject: How to kill OL2000 ability to render html mail
    >
    >
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > I am looking for a way to prevent Outlook 2000 rendering html
    > > email.
    > >
    > > I don't want to block it, just prevent Outlook from sucking
    > > a billion bytes of crap from the internet just to render some
    > > piece of spam (IMHO all html mail is spam ;) ).
    > >
    > > I don't care if all you see is the original html code, however
    > > unreadable that might be.
    > >
    > > A side issue is to further prevent any active content.
    > >
    > > Outlook is fully patched & locked down as far as I can get it.
    > >
    > > Does anyone know of a registry hack/add in tool that can make
    > > this happen? Or is this a mail server issue requiring server
    > > based fixes?
    > >
    > > Changing to another email client is not an option as the LAN
    > > is based on Exchange, and the calendar/collaborative functions
    > > are needed.
    > >
    > > TIA
    > >
    >

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: TNEF, winmail.dat
      ... Is the user that is receiving the WINMAIL.DAT files got his Outlook ... Edition mail server. ... Why is it that one user is receing a plain text copy ...
      (microsoft.public.exchange.clients)
    • Re: One recipient cannot receive our emails
      ... We have changed it to plain text. ... Properties on contact is SMTP, let Outlook decide what is the ... the mail server. ... Brian Tillman ...
      (microsoft.public.outlook.installation)
    • Re: Distribution list attachment
      ... Great information Sue. ... > setting and what the mail server might do to the message after you send it. ... > Plain text should always come out as plain text, ... > Outlook Express, so you can look at the full message source of the message. ...
      (microsoft.public.outlook)
    • Re: Sent Rich Text Ends Up Plain Text?
      ... If the recipieint addresses are not marked for plain text only, ... likely explanation is that the mail server is stripping the RTF content. ... Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP ... >> composed as Rich text but they ending up arriving as Plain Text, ...
      (microsoft.public.outlook.general)
    • Re: How to kill OL2000 ability to render html mail
      ... tiny firewall ), and ban the Outlook executable from hitting ... How to kill OL2000 ability to render html mail ...
      (Focus-Microsoft)
    • Quantcast