GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 484634
"!\n " randomly inserted into sent text
Last modified: 2009-08-18 11:57:26 UTC
Forwarding from a downstream bug report: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230765 Description of problem: I have seen several emails sent from evolution (evolution-2.8.3-1.fc6 on x86_64) where the message is in HTML, but the HTML portion of the received message contains "!\n " (exclamation mark, newline, and space) inserted in random places. It doesn't appear in the text/plain portion of the received message, and the message that got copied to the Sent folder on the sending machine does not include the extra exclamations either! The messages are being given to sendmail (sendmail-8.13.8-2) on the same machine, and the SMTP host is running postfix (postfix-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.2). I've had reports of the same thing with another (non-postfix-hosted) recipient as well. So why are these extra things getting inserted into the message? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.8.3-1.fc6 sendmail-8.13.8-2 How reproducible: Frequently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After some investigation we found that is because of GtkHtml which creates HTML mails with anchors not wrapped, so with long urls or more than one anchor consecutively beside itself, the line length exceed max length for sendmail and sendmail puts there those "!\n ". See comments there for more info. This bug applies for 2.12 as well.
feel free to reassign against gtkhtml
hi all, The similar bug was reported here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297143 The submitted patches are for plain text mode.
David, patches included in novell's bug looks almost good, just: a) Do not mix declaration and code, always declare variables at the beginning of the block and do not assign values to variables before declarations in the block. b) Add ChangeLog entries. If you can attach updated patches here, it will be nice. Thanks in advance.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 494531 ***