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Bug 422709 - Evolution displays some HTML e-mails as if they were plain text
Evolution displays some HTML e-mails as if they were plain text
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256160
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-03-25 17:58 UTC by Andrew J. Montalenti
Modified: 2012-02-06 12:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Attachments
Spoof HTML e-mail which looks like plain text when rendered in Evo. (3.21 KB, text/plain)
2007-03-25 17:59 UTC, Andrew J. Montalenti
Details

Description Andrew J. Montalenti 2007-03-25 17:58:11 UTC
Please describe the problem:
Today I received a spoof e-mail from a Paypal spammer.  The e-mail appeared to be plain text (used fixed width font, etc.) and had links to www.paypal.com.  However, when I hovered over it, I noticed that the link was actually to a spoof address.

I think it's somewhat dangerous for Evolution to show e-mails which are actually HTML formatted with no indication of such, especially since using certain bits of CSS/Javascript magic, spammers can create HTML mails that look like plain text.

I'm going to attach the specific e-mail the spammer sent, but I'm going to suggest that Evo give some sort of (subtle, but present) visual cue that an e-mail is HTML formatted, to prevent possible spoof abuses like this.

Steps to reproduce:
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Does this happen every time?
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Comment 1 Andrew J. Montalenti 2007-03-25 17:59:17 UTC
Created attachment 85272 [details]
Spoof HTML e-mail which looks like plain text when rendered in Evo.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2012-02-06 12:12:43 UTC
Emails should be rendered as they are defined in the HTML markup, so I don't consider this a bug at all. I'm more afraid of "why is this rendered incorrectly" bug reports once changing.
I'd rather fix bug 256160 instead.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256160 ***