Going GUI...er

[Greg Marks]

I realize this isn't an answer to Vegard Svanberg's original question,
but I think it's a point worth raising: isn't the fact that mutt is
text-based a security feature?

Thunderbird, which I consider the second-best e-mail client, does have
security settings to prevent it from automatically loading certain
content that might contain exploits.  But it seems to me that mutt does
it one better by, for example, forcing users to take extra steps to click
on hyperlinks, which is a bit of extra defense against spear phishing.
Indeed, by seeing the raw HTML you can avoid a malicious hyperlink that
doesn't match the link text displayed.

Obviously all of this is not a panacea, and no doubt you can still be
harmed by opening a malware attachment in mutt.  But am I wrong to think
that these things that seem to be a hassle are actually good for us?

Best regards,
Greg Marks
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