Closed Bug 91718 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

html within text message is interpreted making forwarding impossible

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 91174

People

(Reporter: binford2k, Assigned: bugzilla)

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(1 file)

Here is a saved mail that causes this problem.
2.76 KB, text/plain
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From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010710
BuildID:    2001071021

If HTML is included within the text of a text only email body (see example) then
it is interpreted when you try to forward the message.  This makes the text
quite unreadable.

See http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197926 for an example of a message.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Receive a TEXT only email with HTML code in it.
2.  Click forward.
3.  Notice borked message ;)

Actual Results:  Interpreted raw text as HTML code.

Expected Results:  Send raw text.
I should also note that you can work around this by clicking reply instead of
forward and then retyping the To: field.
reporter,
can you attach the message to the bug?
See http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197926 for an example of a message.

I do not have the actual message in my mailbox anymore, but if you read the
above mail you will see what I am talking about.  (whenever securityfocus comes
back, that is . . . )

A quick recap of the message:

--------------------------------
IE has such and such vulnerability where if you use the following code in a web
page it will do something or other

<html>
<head>
<META something or other>
</head>
<body>
more stuff
</body>
</html>

The fix is to not use IE.
--------------------------------

It also appears to be interpreted before it gets to the mail editor.  If you
select 'view source' you don't get the HTML, but the text after interpretation.

confirming this bug on win98- 2001-08-07-06

You will see the problem when you use the attached message in the bug and 
forward it.  I see this problem only forwarding this message with html compose 
and not with plain text compose.  Also it is fine when you are replying to this 
message using html compose
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
I think I've seen this with Solaris/SPARC build 2001081710 as well. It doesn't
seem to matter whether the "markup" is identifiable HTML. It hides anything with
matched '<' and '>' which make strings like <protocol>://<hostname>/<path>
fairly useless a they come out as :// /

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91174 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified as dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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