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Bug 725113 - Flushing Outbox after re-opening message changes From: address to default account even if message was sent from a different account
Flushing Outbox after re-opening message changes From: address to default acc...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.4.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-02-25 01:44 UTC by David Z
Modified: 2014-02-25 01:57 UTC
See Also:
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Description David Z 2014-02-25 01:44:54 UTC 
(using 3.4.4 as included in Debian Wheezy)

Very serious potential privacy concerns from this bug.

To reproduce:

1. Set up multiple mail accounts in Evolution 3.4.4 (and probably later versions as well...),

2. Make one of them the Default account,

3. Have mail sending configuration mis-configured on a non-default account (ie, wrong SMTP port),

4. Compose a message with mis-configured account,

5. Hit "Send" button, wait for send timeout, select "Save to Outbox,"

6. Fix SMTP configuration for that account, (or perhaps that's not even necessary)

7. Select Outbox under "On This Computer" (not under an account),

8. Open the failed message (note that it shows the correct From: address before this, in the preview pane),

9. The message fully opened from the Outbox now has the default account as its From: field, 

10. Flushing the outbox will actually send the message from the default account and NOT the account it was composed by.


I am assuming that this is related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317337 and possibly https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336495 but it may not be.

This is a very troubling bug (or set of bugs) for anyone with very distinct and separate personal/work/superhero/etc email addresses.

Thanks for your efforts.
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2014-02-25 01:57:02 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use.

By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.