Re: Final word: Eudora and malicious HTML

Jeff Beckley (beckleyQUALCOMM.COM)
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:58:18 -0800

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At 11:11 AM 11/29/99 -0600, Jonathan M. Gilligan wrote:
>Since I (and perhaps other NTBUGTRAQ readers) have run into problems with
>Eudora trying to render malicious HTML snippets in NTBUGTRAQ mailings,
>leading to Eudora freezing as in the DOS attack described above, it is
>useful to know that the latest (4.2.2) release of Eudora adds a
>configuration option "HtmlInPlainText", which you can set to zero to turn
>off rendering HTML snippets in a message that is not wrapped with ...
>. If you want to disable the rendering of disembodied HTML
>elements, just add the line
>
>HtmlInPlainText=0
>
>to the [Settings] portion of your Eudora.ini file.

Or there's an easier way to change it. Just click on this URL:
<x-Eudora-option:HtmlInPlainText=0> inside Eudora, and click OK to the
dialog that pops up.

Also note what Jonathan says, which is that this option is only available
in the 4.2.2 version of Windows Eudora. 4.2.2 can be downloaded as a free
upgrade to all Eudora Pro 4.x users from
<http://www.eudora.com/pro_email/updaters.html>.

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