GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 306525
message headers cause reply function to fail
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:04:09 UTC
Please describe the problem: I received an email message. When I hit the reply button, the "To" area in Evolution's message composition window is missing and there is a "Post To:" button in its place. This button will let me "Choose folders to post this message to." but will not let me select contacts from my address book. Steps to reproduce: 1. Get a message like the one I did. (See below.) 2. Select its entry in the inbox list and hit the reply button in Evolution's toolbar. (Alternate step 2.) Open the message in its own window and hit the reply button. Actual results: A window that is visually similar to but not functionally equivalent to the "reply to an email message" window pops up. In the place of the "To:" area there is a "Post To:" area which has the properties described earlier. (See screenshot.) Expected results: A "reply to an email message" type window should have popped up, just like it always does when I hit the reply message on an email. Does this happen every time? Yes, for this particular problem message. I am able to reply to all other messages without any difficulty. Other information: This is the full source of the problem message: Return-Path: <harob02@earthlink.net> Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx2.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06740124C734 for <erpo41@hotpop.com>; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 23:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.45] ([68.239.129.206]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IHL001OX1DVEAC6@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for erpo41@hotpop.com; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:03:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:03:24 -0400 From: Dan Mundy <harob02@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: cross-OS transparent encryption In-reply-to: <1117904637.4910.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> To: Erpo <erpo41@hotpop.com> Message-id: <42A2333C.6090909@earthlink.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=------------enig2B586371CAC57B48C54C8E82 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnu.gnupg.users References: <1117834319.5133.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42A1A592.7020900@earthlink.net> <1117904637.4910.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-HotPOP-Delivered-To: erpo41@hotpop.com X-Evolution-Source: pop://erpo41%40hotpop.com@pop.hotpop.com This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2B586371CAC57B48C54C8E82 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Erpo wrote: > He's already doing this. Now he wants his system to automatically > encrypt every file before it's written to that partition, and decrypt > every file every time an application tries to read it in either OS. > DM-Crypt does this for Linux, and NTFS has this capability in windows, > but AFAIK there's no cross-platform solution. Linux doesn't have NTFS > write support (let alone NTFS encryption support) and Windows certainly > won't touch a DM-Crypt'd partition. > > Someone else suggested Bestcrypt and I passed that on, but it's neither > Free software nor freeware. > > > Eric i wonder if it's possible to format all your partitions with 2 filesystems. it would be cool to have an fs that's fat32 and ext3 at the same time, and it would solve hernan's difficulty. Dan --------------enig2B586371CAC57B48C54C8E82 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2rc1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCojNCTbbnG4BhqDARAh7jAKD3Jsfno9PIW8hljiLGdHxDgb4WkgCfYbKW y8DwrER4ki7zia3uMtqcKwE= =sFvv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2B586371CAC57B48C54C8E82--
Created attachment 47253 [details] picture of the reply window This is the window that comes up when I select the problem message and hit reply. It has a Post-To: area where it should have a To: area. The dialog box to the right of the reply window is what pops up when I click on the Post-To: button.
I tried this with many messages but unfortunately i am not able to reproduce the issue, i am using Evolution 2.2.2 and gtkhtml2-3.6.2 can you pls verify this with latest version?
I *can* reproduce this is bug with the given mail. REOPENing. Actually, reproducing this is quite easy. Just save the abve message snippet to a file, and make it valid mbox format by adding a From line as the first line, like for example adding a line containing exactly "From harob02@earthlink.net". Import that mbox file. Replying to the mail will show the Post To: field, but misses the To: field. Confirming. Evo 2.4.2.1.
Eric, as a workaround, just delete that text in the Post To: input field, and use View / To Field to get a proper To: header.
Hmm, not sure what triggers this exactly, but I believe it is this line: Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnu.gnupg.users Eric, can you confirm the message in question was a cross-post sent to you directly by mail as well as to a News Group by the original sender? At any rate, Evo should Reply to the Sender (by mail). Posting a Reply has a different menu item. This is not the intended bahviour of Reply to Sender. Original report for Evo 2.0.4, updating Verson to the last verified version, 2.4.x in this case. Bumping Priority and Severity, setting Tarhet Milestone. Adjusting Component to Mailer.
>Eric, can you confirm the message in question was a cross-post sent to you >directly by mail as well as to a News Group by the original sender? --------- Erpo wrote: >Hi, > >Do you know why your mail client is putting a Newsgroups: header in your >outgoing messages? Are you posting your messages to a newsgroup as well >as the email list? My client is choking on them when I try to reply to >your messages. > >Thanks, > > >Eric > > > > yes, i have gpg-users configured as a newsgroup from gmane (gmane.comp.gnu.gnupg.users) and when i post to the mailing list, it's usually in reply to something i saw on the newsgroup. i usually have the headers like this: To: Recipient <recipient@mail.net> Newsgroup: gmane.comp.gnu.gnupg.users i'm sorry if your email program isn't working with my messages, and i'll try to mail to the mailing list instead of the newsgroup. Dan
OK, so this indeed was a cross-post. Thanks for confirming this. :) Although it is kind of him to to try to not use the news group, it won't fix this bug.
Hi Eric, Guenther, The message is a news-group posting, and as in the case of News-group postings it always gets posted to a "News folder" and not a particular user. And as Guenther pointed out in Comment #5 its because of the Newsgroup header. If you actually want to reply to a specific person you actually need to use the View->To or View->CC or View->Bcc field like Guenther pointed out. To check each time if a particular mail is a cross-post or not is a little cumbersome. IMHO, this is not a bug. Suggestions/ideas??
As discussed with Guenther on IRC: * shreyas has quit (Ping timeout: 200 seconds) guenther a) ReplySender should reply to the sender always, no? In case of a news account, does ReplySender actually post the reply? partha yeah it does partha a reply always does that. guenther does what? partha post to the news account. guenther oh, really? guenther ok partha we could probably priroritise. guenther possible workaround, probably a hack: guenther There is a filter to filter on source-account. guenther Use this. guenther If the source account is not a NNTP account, we never ever should post the reply to the group -- unless specifically requested by "Post Reply".
(In reply to comment #9) > guenther If the source account is not a NNTP account, we never ever should post > the reply to the group -- unless specifically requested by "Post Reply". I like this solution. Replies should use the same communication medium as the initial message, if possible. Also, Evolution shouldn't try to use media that are not availale. It doesn't know how to access my ISP's news server, so it shouldn't offer to post my reply via usenet.
@Partha: Are we fixing this for 2.5 or can we move the milestone to future?
Thanks for taking the time to report this issue and providing some details. A bug about this broken behavior already has been filed previously. I'm going to add pointers to this bug to bug 260995. Please feel free to report any further issue you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260995 ***