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Plain Text: Increased Security

Emails using baroque HTML formatting are not, of course, a priori evil. Potentially, though, each formatted message is a risk to your security and privacy.

Plain text is always more secure, because it is limited to a very small set of characters and knows no commands that the email program would execute.

If you set up Mozilla Thunderbird to show emails in plain text, you also make your email more secure.
Have Mozilla Thunderbird Display Messages in Plain Text Only

To configure Mozilla Thunderbird (as well as Netscape and Mozilla Seamonkey) so it displays emails in plain text by default:

Select View | Message Body As | Plain Text from the menu.
If you do not see a menu bar, hold down the Alt key.
You can also click the Thunderbird Menu (hamburger menu) button in the toolbar.

Limitations of Plain Text-Only Viewing in Mozilla Thunderbird

Note that Mozilla Thunderbird will not convert messages that come only in a formatted version to plain text.

It will display the plain text alternative only for emails that come in the multipart/alternative format, which includes both a rich-text and a plain text version of the same message.

With plain text display enabled in Mozilla Thunderbird, messages that contain only formatted text will be shown blank.

To see these messages in a secure manner:

Select View | Message Source from the menu to see the full email source.

The message source will contain HTML code and may be difficult to read. You can have Mozilla Thunderbird render the HTML in a simple—more secure—manner.

To see HTML-only emails in a reasonably secure manner:

Select View | Message Body As | Simple HTML from the menu.

For security's sake, make sure remote images are disabled by default: select Tools | Options from the menu, go to the Privacy tab and make sure Allow remote content in messages is not checked.
Send Plain Text Email from Mozilla Thunderbird

If you prefer to read (and receive) messages in plain text, you may want to return the favor and send your emails using but plain text as well.

@scanman1 wrote:

I have my Thunderbird Email client set to accept only pure text emails for my shopping email address and attachments. Sure I don't get the photo of that new car that is supposed to get me excited to do a car shop for $12.

All of the automated emails from Prophet, Shopmetrics and Sassie can send out text only offers.

I find it much faster to read and delete the ones that are not relevant without the distractions, tracking bugs and possibly worse.

@ wrote:

Plain Text: Increased Security

Emails using baroque HTML formatting are not, of course, a priori evil. Potentially, though, each formatted message is a risk to your security and privacy.

Plain text is always more secure, because it is limited to a very small set of characters and knows no commands that the email program would execute.

If you set up Mozilla Thunderbird to show emails in plain text, you also make your email more secure.
Have Mozilla Thunderbird Display Messages in Plain Text Only

To configure Mozilla Thunderbird (as well as Netscape and Mozilla Seamonkey) so it displays emails in plain text by default:

Select View | Message Body As | Plain Text from the menu.
If you do not see a menu bar, hold down the Alt key.
You can also click the Thunderbird Menu (hamburger menu) button in the toolbar.

Limitations of Plain Text-Only Viewing in Mozilla Thunderbird

Note that Mozilla Thunderbird will not convert messages that come only in a formatted version to plain text.

It will display the plain text alternative only for emails that come in the multipart/alternative format, which includes both a rich-text and a plain text version of the same message.

With plain text display enabled in Mozilla Thunderbird, messages that contain only formatted text will be shown blank.

To see these messages in a secure manner:

Select View | Message Source from the menu to see the full email source.

The message source will contain HTML code and may be difficult to read. You can have Mozilla Thunderbird render the HTML in a simple—more secure—manner.

To see HTML-only emails in a reasonably secure manner:

Select View | Message Body As | Simple HTML from the menu.

For security's sake, make sure remote images are disabled by default: select Tools | Options from the menu, go to the Privacy tab and make sure Allow remote content in messages is not checked.
Send Plain Text Email from Mozilla Thunderbird

If you prefer to read (and receive) messages in plain text, you may want to return the favor and send your emails using but plain text as well.

@SunnyDays2 wrote:

@scanman1 wrote:

I have my Thunderbird Email client set to accept only pure text emails for my shopping email address and attachments. Sure I don't get the photo of that new car that is supposed to get me excited to do a car shop for $12.

All of the automated emails from Prophet, Shopmetrics and Sassie can send out text only offers.

I find it much faster to read and delete the ones that are not relevant without the distractions, tracking bugs and possibly worse.

@ wrote:

Plain Text: Increased Security

Emails using baroque HTML formatting are not, of course, a priori evil. Potentially, though, each formatted message is a risk to your security and privacy.

Plain text is always more secure, because it is limited to a very small set of characters and knows no commands that the email program would execute.

If you set up Mozilla Thunderbird to show emails in plain text, you also make your email more secure.
Have Mozilla Thunderbird Display Messages in Plain Text Only

To configure Mozilla Thunderbird (as well as Netscape and Mozilla Seamonkey) so it displays emails in plain text by default:

Select View | Message Body As | Plain Text from the menu.
If you do not see a menu bar, hold down the Alt key.
You can also click the Thunderbird Menu (hamburger menu) button in the toolbar.

Limitations of Plain Text-Only Viewing in Mozilla Thunderbird

Note that Mozilla Thunderbird will not convert messages that come only in a formatted version to plain text.

It will display the plain text alternative only for emails that come in the multipart/alternative format, which includes both a rich-text and a plain text version of the same message.

With plain text display enabled in Mozilla Thunderbird, messages that contain only formatted text will be shown blank.

To see these messages in a secure manner:

Select View | Message Source from the menu to see the full email source.

The message source will contain HTML code and may be difficult to read. You can have Mozilla Thunderbird render the HTML in a simple—more secure—manner.

To see HTML-only emails in a reasonably secure manner:

Select View | Message Body As | Simple HTML from the menu.

For security's sake, make sure remote images are disabled by default: select Tools | Options from the menu, go to the Privacy tab and make sure Allow remote content in messages is not checked.
Send Plain Text Email from Mozilla Thunderbird

If you prefer to read (and receive) messages in plain text, you may want to return the favor and send your emails using but plain text as well.

Can you come over and show me how to do all this?