GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 229013
Allow disabling automatic display of attachments (images/files) attached to an email
Last modified: 2020-02-06 16:33:36 UTC
Description of Problem: Images are automatically displayed in emails where attachments are sent with the suggestion of automatic display. I have gotten porn dumped to my machine which was not HTML mail. The way the attachment was configured was to display on opening. Wishlist: The option where Evolution allows you to ignore an automatic display on an attachment. Allow this list to be configured on a per type basis. This way someone that wants to automatically open jpegs can but prevent gifs as an example.
I don't see us getting to this for quite a while, if we ever decide to even implement it at all.
The only difference that I see between this feature and the feature which prevents the downloading of images for HTML is that the image is downloaded as an attachment. If people don't wish to see the images there must be some method, Evolution or not, which enables them to prevent the images from being automatically display. Perhaps procmail can be used in conjunction with Evolution or at least something that allows adjusting all attachments to not auto display. These ofcourse are just my thoughts. Thanks for listening.
well, if you setup procmail - one way of doing it would be to change the Content-Disposition header for jpeg attachments (for example) to force "Content-Disposition: attachment" rather than "Content-Disposition: inline" since that is what we use to decide whether or not to display the image (or whatever).
How would I use procmail with Evolution? If Evolution grabs the mail for me and does the filtering then I am not sure how to make them work together. The original request could be done with Evolution filters if we add an action that changes a specific header. This way we could allow any specific header field to be changed. For example if we have the criterion 'specific header' called 'Content-Disposition' contains 'inline' we perform the action 'set header' called 'Content-Disposition' to 'attachment'. Is my thinking valid?
if you use procmail, it gets the mail and stores it in folders that evolution accesses, directly. you dont use evolution to download then.
*** Bug 301654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 265921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
265921 is slightly different, but could be achieved by the same thing. i.e. "show images: always inline, always as attachments, follow email suggestion". i don't see any reason to differentiate for each image type. this could be implemented as an eplugin.
*** Bug 240759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding eplugin keyword as per notzed's comment
given the increasing amount of spam floating around with images generally regarded as "not-safe-for-work", it may be time to give this one a second look.
Mentioned in https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/21178 as well.
http://librarian.launchpad.net/1511329/snps_sites.txt and http://librarian.launchpad.net/1511330/hap_phased.txt.gz were attached as example files.
*** Bug 347866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This had been implemented as part of bug #769388, thus I'm closing this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 769388 ***