Re: [tlug] Recommended light weight browser

[jep200404 <jep200404@example.com>]

"Nguyen Vu Hung" wrote:

> 2007/11/20, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>:

> > ..., you
> > might be better off simply using your own mail client to pull in (and
> > send out) gmail.
> >
> No, because I am afraid of virus and junk emails.

There are email clients that are remarkably hard to corrupt with viruses. 
Generally, email clients that don't automatically execute stuff 
in email, and email clients that don't render HTML (and Javascript) 
have very little vulnerability to viruses. They have less 
vulnerability than reading email using a web browser, especially 
if the web mail requires Javascript. Sylpheed is one such low 
vulnerability email client. 

Using an email client doesn't change how much junk email (spam) you get.