[NTLUG:Discuss] Bizzare email behavior in Mozilla.

[Steve Baker]

I'm reading email in Mozilla (and SuSE 9.1) and recently - about once
every day or two - I get an email in some foreign character set that
(if I inadvertantly display it) takes about 10 minutes to download
via DSL, locks up Mozilla completely while it's downloading and
finally starts 'infecting' the text labels in Mozilla's menues and
prompts so that they too are displayed in the font of the message.

When the message finally appears, it's some typical piece of HTML
spam.

I have to shut down Mozilla to restore normal font behavior - and
while the message is downloading, the only way to stop it is to
open another window and do a killall -9 mozilla!!

Generally, I delete these messages without displaying them - and
most of the time, Mozilla's baysian filters trap them - so this only
affects me once in a great while.

But being a Linux user and generally supremely oblivious of viruses and
other such nastiness coming via email, this is a bit of a shock to
the system.

So - lots of questions:

1) What the heck it is doing to my fonts?  It seems like this
    must be a Mozilla bug.

2) Is there a way in Mozilla to automatically filter out messages
    that use a particular character set?  After all, if I can't
    understand it, I might as well filter it.

3) Why is there no way to interrupt this thing while it's eating
    all of my time/bandwidth?

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