[xubuntu-users] XP to XUbuntu - The journey, join me

[George F. Nemeyer]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, James Freer wrote:

> I use Alpine now and read the gmail server directly which I found is
> excellent bearing in mind the xubuntu six month upgrades.

Pine/Alpine's main advantage is that it's purely text based, and dosen't
load *anything* from external sites, and dosen't execute attachments.

So your machine isn't going to get infested with html- and
attachment-borne viruses/malware, faked out by bogus URLs that look like
legitimate links in spam, and you won't be 'tracked' or alert spammers by
triggering web-bugs that tell the sender you've opened the message.

You can also see the raw html in the if you turn on full headers.

Opening *anything* in html mail that's not from trusted sources (and those
are often spoofed) is just flat dangerous these days.