GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 321162
HTML mail from Exchange causes weird behaviour in reply editor
Last modified: 2005-11-14 08:54:01 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I get an email from my girlfirends place of work which is in HTML format and I try to reply to it the text comes out backwards from the cursor. Steps to reproduce: 1: Lisa sends me an email 2: I reply. This is some text that I typed as a reply: !sdrawkcab lla si sihT This is the source of the email she sent me. I have replaced addresses and server names for obvious reasons. Return-Path: <LisaL@notonyournelly.com> X-Original-To: dan@foo.co.uk Delivered-To: dan@foo.co.uk Received: from smarthost0.foo.net (smarthost0.foo.net [212.135.6.10]) by foo.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A12A1CEC466 for <dan@foo.co.uk>; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:42:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [217.207.85.146] (helo=efd3.efd-int.com) by smarthost0.foo.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1EaDdh-0006Hq-00 for dan@foo.co.uk; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:42:57 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C5E605.A34267C1" Subject: what are you boys up to? Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:47:13 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Message-ID: <16F1E6F86F42254AA69A799A18441E5716A9D2@efd3.efd-int.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: what are you boys up to? thread-index: AcXmBaL7goZ0MjU5TSu+qeySA4mjuw== From: "Lisa Li" <LisaL@notonyournelly.com> To: <dan@foo.co.uk> Cc: <ross@foo.com> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on bar.foo.co.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,HTML_90_100,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=3.0.2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5E605.A34267C1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 What are you trying to do Mr Alderman? =20 =20 Lisa Li=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5E605.A34267C1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D997424514-10112005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>What=20 <STRONG>are</STRONG> you trying to do <FONT color=3D#0000ff>Mr=20 Alderman</FONT>? </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV class=3DSection1> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><A name=3D_MailAutoSig><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">Lisa=20 Li <?xml:namespace prefix =3D o ns =3D = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"=20 /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></A></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">Accounts=20 Payable<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">Ent=20 in Foo<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">Foo St<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">London<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">SW1=20 6H<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">Tel:=20 020 111 2222<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoAutoSig><SPAN style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype = Corsiva'; mso-no-proof: yes">Fax::=20 020 222 3333<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P><SPAN=20 style=3D"mso-bookmark: _MailAutoSig"></SPAN> <P class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5E605.A34267C1-- Actual results: reply text is backwards Expected results: reply text goes forwards :) Does this happen every time? yep Other information: can you cc ross@burtonini.com, he would like to see the outcome of this one too :) Thanks, Dan.
Created attachment 54581 [details] The culprit email, edited for privacy reasons
reassigning to the connector component
Re-assigning back to Evolution: the person who sent the email is using Evolution, but the bug happens in Evolution connecting to a Linux IMAP server.
I meant "Re-assigning back to Evolution: the person who sent the email is using *Exchange* but the bug happens in Evolution connecting to a Linux IMAP server."
I remember this being fixed in gtkhtml sometime, a long time ago. What version of gtkhtml do you have. Assuming its either3.6 or 3.8 since the Evolution version mentioned here is 2.4 (is it?) This i suspect is really going to be gtkhtml bug.
gtkhtml 3.8.1-0ubuntu1
confirming the bug. Sorry for the spam
yeah, marking this as a duplicate of bug 273512 which i had reopened a few weeks ago. partha: the bug wasn't fixed, it was just not possible to reproduce it, see my comments at bug 273512. ;-) i copied important comments to bug 273512. (hmm, don't slap me if i did not think that your comment was important ;-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273512 ***
Hey thanks Andre :)