Evolution: images in HTML messages

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 11:42 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
 
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> 
> I wonder if it would be better to make showing images the default
> behaviour. Many inexperienced people propably think that images are
> missing for the same reason as they are not beeing able to see flash
> presentations or most videos. When people browse the internet they
> always can see the images on the pages and don't expect to have to
> change a setting to be able to see images on HTML messages.

> I guess the reason for the current behaviour is to save bandwith, which
> is good in itself. One solution might be to enable images, but with the
> first message containing them explaining the bandwith prolbem and asking
> the user if he doesn't want images to be downloaded in the future.
> 
> What do Evolution people and others think?

I think the decision was done more for security and peace of mind than
for bandwidth. In fact many people seem to have fast connections to the
internet so bandwidth is not that big a deal.

Spam however is a real problem, and images used in spam can be both
offensive and insecure. From the standpoint of protecting users from
these things I feel the default settings with images off is wise.

Jeremiah