Mail Viewer weirdness

[maia@…]

I've not seen this before, hopefully this isn't a duplicate ticket.

When viewing this particular email from the MrPostman?-developers list on Sourceforge, some of the email's text appears above the toolbar icons as shown below. Very peculiar.

[maia@…]

The formatting weirdness

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the email that caused the formatting oddness

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As shown in the text file, the contents of the email was pulled from the database with the command

select contents from maia_mail where id=418178;

Using Maia from SVN. If there's any more information needed, please let me know.

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Ed

[rjl]

The problem arises in this case because this "text/plain" message contains some HTML code being cited in the middle for illustration purposes. The <TD></TD> tag example they use is being interpreted by Maia's mail viewer as real HTML instructions.

The fix (and yes, this is a bug) would seem to be to examine the mail part's content-type, and only interpret HTML code inside blocks that are actually of type "text/html". For all other content types, any HTML entities should be proactively escaped (e.g. "&lt;" instead of "<", etc.).

[rjl]

Duplicate of #26.