From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 22:57:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.pa.home.com [24.12.106.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF84A37BA23 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bkwalters@lucent.com) Received: from kagan.quedawg.com ([24.8.210.114]) by mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000402065749.FIIF28012.mail.rdc2.pa.home.com@kagan.quedawg.com> for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:57:49 -0800 Received: (from psiphi@localhost) by kagan.quedawg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA03934 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 02:42:51 GMT Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 02:42:51 +0000 From: "Brian K . Walters" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lynx forbidden Message-ID: <20000402024251.A3917@kagan.quedawg.com> References: <20000330113843.A1103@laptop.firehouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000330113843.A1103@laptop.firehouse.net>; from abc@bsdi.com on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:38:44AM -0600 X-Operating-System: Linux X-Organization: Lucent Networkcare Professional Services X-Disclaimer: Lucent NPS - The Knowledge Behind The Network Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:38:44AM -0600, Alan Clegg wrote: > Out of the ether, Benjamin Lutz spewed forth the following bitstream: > > Well, I still have a question though: Why was Lynx marked "forbidden" > > at all, leading to misunderstandings? Or the standard unix user > > expected to be able to do this basic kind of "hacking"? > > The lynx port is marked forbidden due to security problems. > > There is no misunderstanding. > > If you want to open yourself (and your users) up to buffer overflows in > the code, you are more than welcome. > > AlanC In light of that is there a recommended replacement for lynx until the security holes are worked out. Unfortunately I need something to view html marked up emails in mutt. I am replaced linux with freebsd on my home machine and I would like that same functionality. What other programs are out there like lynx that I could use in my .mailcap file to view html marked emails in mutt? TIA -- Brian K. Walters bkwalters@lucent.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message