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Bug 484634 - "!\n " randomly inserted into sent text
"!\n " randomly inserted into sent text
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 494531
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.12.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-08 08:51 UTC by Milan Crha
Modified: 2009-08-18 11:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20



Description Milan Crha 2007-10-08 08:51:05 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.

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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.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-10-15 23:07:46 UTC
feel free to reassign against gtkhtml
Comment 2 David Liang 2007-10-24 04:44:25 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2007-11-30 11:06:22 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Akhil Laddha 2009-08-18 11:57:26 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 494531 ***