Bug 251580

Summary:	Handling of HTML-mails uncomfortable
Product:	[Unmaintained] KMail Mobile	Reporter:	Felix Wolfsteller <felix.wolfsteller>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	minor	CC:	bjoern.ricks, ludwig.reiter, tokoe
Priority:	LO
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Maemo 5
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Warning message in HTML mail

Description Felix Wolfsteller 2010-09-17 16:13:50 UTC

kmail(-mobile) can handle and render html mails.

However, I assume the usual scenario is the following:

Due to security concerns (awareness) and readability, the average user disables html rendering by default (selecting a folder, Actions flap -> View -> Prefer HTML to plain text [off]). Actually, that is default already.

However in rare cases a mail with html-formatting might drop in which the user wants to see rendered as such (mails from grammys new unconfigured pc, for example).

I would expect that:
1) The user is decently informed that a mail contains html formatting
2) The user might decide on a per-mail per-view basis to render the mail as such

Same goes for "external references" (e.g. embedded images hosted somewhere).

Found unsatisfactory in 4:4.5~20100910.1175630-1maemo6.1174786 .

Comment 1 Volker Krause 2010-10-08 12:11:49 UTC

There is a read warning box in case you get a HTML mail and have switch HTML rendering off by default. It contains a link to render it nevertheless, same for external references. Do you see that for HTML mails? Does the link in there work for you? If yes, what else is missing?

Comment 2 Volker Krause 2010-11-26 10:35:52 UTC

Ping?

Comment 3 Ludwig Reiter 2011-01-14 13:10:59 UTC

Test:
1. Copy a read HTML mail to a folder. (desktop) Sync with mobile.
2. Look at the mail.
=> plain text is displayed.
3. Switch Prefer HTML on
=> html text is displayed

No warning. No info that this mail is a HTML mail.
This info should be mail specific.

Comment 4 Tobias Koenig 2011-01-17 10:15:14 UTC

Created attachment 56117 [details]
Warning message in HTML mail

Hej Ludwig,

if I open an HTML mail on Linux/Desktop or WinCE/HTC, the warning from the screenshot is displayed inside the mail. Can you confirm this?

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 5 Tobias Koenig 2011-01-17 10:15:56 UTC

See attachment

Comment 6 Bjoern Ricks 2011-01-17 14:43:31 UTC

Hi Tobias,

you are right for pure html mails the warning message is shown. But for multipart messages no indication is shown that there is also a html formatting and if the html format is preferred then no indication is shown that this mail is a html message.