[kmail2] [Bug 393421] No ability to hide the HTML Message Status Bar

[Peter Humphrey]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393421

--- Comment #58 from Peter Humphrey <peter at prh.myzen.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #55)
> It is a security reason. You could receive an HTML mail that looks like a
> plain text mail, and with HTML you have the ability to embed malicious links
> everywhere. If you have no way to see that the message is actually an HTML
> message, i.e. _outside_ the message viewer, you could click those links
> without being aware that they link to sites that you don't see in the text.
This is completely spurious. If you click on a link, you know it's a link. If
it's a link it must be in HTML. You don't need an ugly great splodge to tell
you it's HTML.

If you think there are people who can't see this, let them keep the warning.
The rest of us, who've used the Internet for more than five minutes, should be
allowed to switch the splodge off, as we always used to be.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.