GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 254060
Can drop any mail in outbox.
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:03:17 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: Drag a message from any mailbox and drop it into outbox. Message seems to be sent, Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Drag a message from i.e. your inbox to make things funnier 2. Drop it into outbox 3. Actual Results: Server dealt with it, however Evolution was too ebedient: sending : MAIL FROM:<federico@ximian.com> BODY=8BITMIME received: 250 ok sending : RCPT TO:<gerardo@ximian.com> received: 250 ok sending : DATA received: 354 go ahead sending : \r\n.\r\n received: 250 ok 1076309043 qp 32183 sending : RSET received: 250 flushed sending : QUIT received: 221 peabody.ximian.com Expected Results: Shouldn't be sent unless "From" matches any of my accounts and then send it using the adequate SMTP server. Worst scenario is not allowing to drop in Outbox. How often does this happen? Every time. Additional Information: Wohoo! I'm a spammer impersonating Federico!
Leaving this as major since it can be confusing to say the least. Assigning to fejj since he loves d&d pain.
fwiw, Outlook allows this as well. on the other hand, Mozilla doesn't allow dragging messages into Outbox at all.
Mozilla also doesn't allow Outbox as the destination for folder/message copies and moves as well. Outlook allows messages to be drag&dropped into the Outbox, but it won't send them... Outlook also allows one to create/move/copy folders into Outbox. I now have a patch on my local system to do the following: - don't allow drag & drop of messages to local Outbox (ie. only allow x-folder to be dropped into local Outbox) - don't allow Outbox to be drag-moved anywhere (drag-copy is forced) - don't allow user to Move Outbox to another location using context menu (consistancy is key) this leaves: - don't allow user to copy/move messages into Outbox via menus - disable move/rename folder-tree context menu items for Outbox to prevent this last one, I think what we really need is an extension to the "pick a folder" dialogs to prevent the user from even being able to choose Outbox. no sense allowing them to choose Outbox and then after pressing OK, giving them an error dialog.
i don't see this as a bug. its a feature isn't it? since you can just create any account name you want anyway, its hardly a security issue or anything either (or spammer issue). FWIW we need options to disable folder picking anyway, e.g. move to a vfolder, import to a vfolder tree or a folder under trash/junk.
yea, I think we should allow users to copy/move messages into Outbox (via d&d or other means). I think that is actually kinda a cool feature. I do think, tho, that Drafts/Inbox/Outbox/Sent need to be protected from being renamed/deleted as various bits of code rely on them always existing, so I have applied a patch to do that. I also have a #if 0 section to prevent d&d of messages into Outbox which I can enable if The Powers That Be decide that is the way to go. (committing what I have so far since either way that code needs to happen)
I'm gonna consider this issue closed for now.