Re: Outlook Express for OS X Leopard. Does it exist? Where to download?

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<ae0eef63-4c21-4459-ab1f-f2e6aa184186@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
billlewis126@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Yes, I know OE is an email program.

He wasn't asking *you*. ; )

If I can't get it, is there a way to insert pictures and animated gifs
into an email?

Also, in OE you can embed a midi file so that music plays when it's
opened. Is there a way to do that in the email program that came with
the Mac?

What a horrid idea. So I'm at work and I open an email from you and
without my permission it starts playing a goofy animation and blaring
some wacky sound over my speakers? Is that the idea?

Sounds horribly insecure to me. Personally, I would not want email
software to have such features! If you want to do things like that, then
do the world a HUGE favor: send your victims plain text emails with
simple links to a HTML web page that does what you want, for crying out
loud.

Plain text is the preferred method for emails by people who know the
internet. It is efficient, safe, virus-free, will be readable by any
mail client at the other end, doesn't impose your font, size, style
preferences on others, and has far smaller risk of being filtered out by
spam filters.

HTML messages are generally two to four times larger for the same
message than plain text equivalents. That means not only do they take
longer to transfer over the net, contributing to network congestion,
they also take up more disk space on your computer, on the recipient's
computer, and on every server they hit along the way!

With HTML messages, the people who receive the messages have little or
no control over the text font, size, and style. They must read the
message in whatever font, size, and style *you* set when you created the
message. Plain Text messages, on the other hand, display in whatever
font, size, and style the recipient wishes.

HTML email is dangerous because it may contain links to external sites
that will do malicious things. For instance, a spammer can include a
link to an image, but this link contains a tag as data. The server at
the other end will get that request when your *read your email* and
based on the tag, will be able to confirm that you've read the email and
not only flag your email address as active/good, but also use your IP
with geographical location servers to assign a location code so that
they can then sell your email address to other spammers along with your
general location. If everyone stopped sending HTML emails, everyone
would block it, and then spammers would be left with very few means to
escape spam filters because their messages would have to be simple and
without tricks.

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