GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 422709
Evolution displays some HTML e-mails as if they were plain text
Last modified: 2012-02-06 12:12:43 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: N/A Actual results: N/A Expected results: N/A Does this happen every time? N/A Other information: N/A
Created attachment 85272 [details] Spoof HTML e-mail which looks like plain text when rendered in Evo.
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 ***