Bug 227546

Summary:	kmail processes html links incorrectly when receiving mail
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Danny Auble <da>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.13.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Danny Auble 2010-02-18 18:12:56 UTC

Version:           1.13.0 (using 4.4.00 (KDE 4.4.0), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31-19-generic

When an email comes in with a '*' in the header it appears kmail now removes the portion of the address behind the '*' up to the first / or :  so for instance,  if the link 'http://*www.this.com' appears in an email message, when hovered over or clicked will result in just 'http:' and nothing more.  This is new in kde 4.4.  

At first I thought it might be the Replace smileys by emoticons but unchecking that didn't seem to do anything.  Emails are as expected with other email clients.

Comment 1 Danny Auble 2010-05-06 21:51:16 UTC

This has become very annoying.  No url coming into kmail gets processed correctly when it has a * in the url.  Is anyone else seeing this?

Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2012-08-16 07:04:06 UTC

do you have a real url with "*" ? in real life ?
I need to test it

Comment 3 Danny Auble 2012-08-17 17:49:43 UTC

I don't but to reproduce this you just send an email with the above http://*www.this.com link and if the bug is fixed the complete url will display instead of just 'http:'.

I haven't tested this in a while since I moved away from kmail so I am not sure if it still exists or not.  All I knew at the time is kde 4.4 introduced the issue.

Thanks

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2012-08-17 18:48:43 UTC

so an url with "*" doesn't exist => it's not valid
=> it's not a bug in kmail :)