[NTLUG:Discuss] Bizzare email behavior in Mozilla.

[Terry]

On 4/24/05, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> My advice (not sure of your exact problem though)....
> 
> Turn off (for Mail and Newsgroups):


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