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agrillet

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Saturday, January 17th 2004, 5:42pm

KMail

I have a major beef with kMail - I recently had to e-mail a poster as a .jpg to someone as an attachment.As I predicted, it was rejected as too big by the recipient's yahoo account, and had to be re-sent to an alternative address.

Each time I went anywhere near the e-mail, kMail opened the A3 size .jpg in-line! This took over 10 minutes on my fastest workstation (1.7GHz) during which time the mouse was almost unuseable and I dread to think what would have happened on my more usual 330MHz machine.

Why on earth would kMail even think of opening an attachment in line without asking first? Worse, I cannot find anywhere to tell it not to do this. Personally, I never want an attachment openened unless I say so.

Apart from anything else, opening attachments is a security risk - I don't mean that a virus might run, but that INFORMATION IN ATTACHMENTS COULD BE VISIBLE OVER MY SHOULDERS. JUST IMAGINE IF THE ATTACHMENT HAD BEEN A PICTURE OF MY GIRLFRIEND AND MY WIFE WAS LOOKING! This could cause serious hardware damage!!! ;-)

This is not a sensible default, and it certainly needs to be easy to disable.

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Saturday, January 17th 2004, 7:41pm

Re: KMail

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Original von agrillet

Why on earth would kMail even think of opening an attachment in line without asking first? Worse, I cannot find anywhere to tell it not to do this. Personally, I never want an attachment openened unless I say so.

AFAIK KMail distinguishes between mime types and only opens the ones deemed harmless automatically inline. Images come to mind. IMHO it's perfectly ok if images are displayed inline without bothering me with a popup or the need to click somewhere.

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Apart from anything else, opening attachments is a security risk - I don't mean that a virus might run, but that INFORMATION IN ATTACHMENTS COULD BE VISIBLE OVER MY SHOULDERS. JUST IMAGINE IF THE ATTACHMENT HAD BEEN A PICTURE OF MY GIRLFRIEND AND MY WIFE WAS LOOKING! This could cause serious hardware damage!!! ;-)

I'd call that a relatively unusual requirement. But in the real world such requirements exist. That's why I'm all for making this configurable (with the default to *on* because I guess that's what most people want). Note that I'm not talking about security here. This is a privacy issue.

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Sunday, January 18th 2004, 10:25am

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Why on earth would kMail even think of opening an attachment in line without asking first? Worse, I cannot find anywhere to tell it not to do this. Personally, I never want an attachment openened unless I say so.

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