Project OpenNTF Mail Experience Feature Request Document

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Project: OpenNTF Mail Experience (Managed by Vince Schuurman)

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Proposed by:	Steve Cassidy
Project Master Chef:	Vince Schuurman Bruce Elgort
Feature type:	Functionality
Brief Description:	Text-only preview/message display?
Status:	Rejected

Details

There's a registry key which stops Outlook from rendering any 'active' code in a mail message, effectively making the message plain text, and preventing IE exploits and live virus loads from firing off. I've seen a couple of places now where they receive 'active' virus payloads into Notes and the preview pane being open is enough to infect the machine - generally this is older viruses on machines where the user has been lazy about anti-virus updates (or laptops left in a drawer, all those kinds of problems)...

So what would be nice is something like a preference setting in the file which forces the use of @ABSTRACT() or similar on the content of the Body, so that what's displayed is dead as mutton until someone presses "see rendered original" or whatever; that way, people with risky email addresses or a need to work on email streams which may contain viruses or malware don't suffer when they forget to close the preview pane...

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Status:	Rejected
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Modification history

Entered 28-Apr-2004 7:47 by Steve Cassidy. Last Modified <none> by <none>.

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Text-only preview/message display? ( on 04/28/2004 07:47:49 AM )

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