[CentOS] Semi-OT: thunderbird displaying inline

mark m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Dec 19 12:45:06 UTC 2016


Hi, Leonard,

On 12/18/16 12:47, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 11:56 -0500, mark wrote:
>>     This is odd. Just recently, at home, even though I have it set to display
>> messages as plain text, I'm suddenly seeing pics attached to spam inline, as
>> though I had it set to display html.
>>
>>     Can't find anything to make it stop - anyone have a clue?
>
> You are probably being confronted with content with content-disposition:
> inline. Many muas display such content, exposing you to possible attacks
> that target bugs in rendering libraries.
>
> Not sure if there's a switch to disable the rendering of content with
> disposition inline in TB but at least now you know what to search
> for :) . Evolution does not have such an switch on C6 and C7, but recent
> releases do: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769388
>
Thanks. Knowing the "magic words" always helps in a search. Thing is, t-bird 
never *used* to do this - it's only recently, I think....

	mark




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