Thread: Re: email browser?
"Santo Quartarone" <quartarone1@rogers.com> writes: > What's the safest email browser? less is pretty safe, more or less ;-). You didn't specify what sort of platform you wanted to use; the choices vary, considerably, between platforms. -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "cbbrowne.com") http://cbbrowne.com/info/oses.html "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" -- <leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de>, Felix von Leitner
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:24, Chris Browne wrote: > "Santo Quartarone" <quartarone1@rogers.com> writes: > > What's the safest email browser? > > less is pretty safe, more or less ;-). > > You didn't specify what sort of platform you wanted to use; the > choices vary, considerably, between platforms. I'd say pine is pretty darned safe...
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 19:21:07 -0600, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@qwest.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:24, Chris Browne wrote: > > "Santo Quartarone" <quartarone1@rogers.com> writes: > > > What's the safest email browser? > > > > less is pretty safe, more or less ;-). > > > > You didn't specify what sort of platform you wanted to use; the > > choices vary, considerably, between platforms. > > I'd say pine is pretty darned safe... While both pine and mutt have had remote exploit bugs in the past, they are probably your safeest alternatives. I prefer mutt as it is more configurable and has a faster to use (IMO) interface than pine.