229736 - Linkify URLs in text/enriched and text/richtext mail messages

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Andy Gerweck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1
Build Identifier: 

Apple's popular Mail application sends Rich Text messages that allow basic fonts, colors and 
formatting but not proper HTML.  Mozilla seems to support it pretty well but it doesn't make URLs 
clickable.  The text/enriched markup doesn't specify URLs, so Mozilla should activate its automatic 
URL detection and make those URLs clickable just as it does in text/plain messages.

Mail is good and getting better so this format will become reasonably popular.  For what it's worth, 
Outlook doesn't highlight Apple's URLs in this format either.  It should be easy enough to fix 
though….

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

confirming.

You'd need to let mozTXTToHTMLConv::ScanTXT() run over the text portions of
richtext, in mimetric.cpp, the same way that mimetpla.cpp and mimetpfl.cpp do
for plaintext and format=flowed.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

It's similar to bug 39042 (filed for the browser), but that is for text/plain files.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Bug 39042 is unrelated apart form the fact that it should also use
mozTXTToHTMLConv::ScanTXT(). Mailnews already does, for plaintext and
format=flowed, and this bug adds text/enriched and text/richtext.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Attachment: test-case

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Actually, you should probably exclude the "struct phrases" recognition, because
enriched can encode that.
(I'm a bit surprised that enriched can't encode URLs, in which case this bug
would probably be wontfix, but I didn't see it in the spec.)

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 315818 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***