Bug 399029

Summary:	unwanted replacement for my identity in header view of message list
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Bernhard Schiffner <bernhard.schiffner>
Component:	message list	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.9.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot with the unwanted and abbreviated identity

Description Bernhard Schiffner 2018-09-24 18:29:51 UTC

Created attachment 115208 [details]
Screenshot with the unwanted and abbreviated identity

The view for email headers (encoded in /usr/share/messageviewer/defaultthemes/5.2/header.html) shows in my case in fields containing my email account "Ich" instead of "Bernhard Schiffner  <bernhard.schiffner@gmx.net>" as I would like to see it. 

As example it can be delivered by the entry "header.from|safe" in the above mentioned header.html file.
"Ich" is German, translating into I / me / myself.
When hovering this field the link itself is the complete one and ok to use.

"Ich" is not part of any identity configured in kmail.
I can't figure out where this replacement originates from. I grep'ed  in ~/.config and  ~/.local folders with no result.

I don't know what to do about.

Comment 1 Bernhard Schiffner 2018-09-24 18:49:59 UTC

I can't prove for sure but the problem seems to exist only if the name of the configured identity in kmail is the same as the users full name in /etc/passwd (5. entry?).

Create an other identity (let's assume "BS") with the same old email name and address and everything works fine.
Rename this new identity back to users full name (here "Bernhard Schiffner") and you get the "Ich" problem again.
(But rename it back again to "BS" doesn't work, you have to recreate the "BS" identity from zero.)

I don't like too much magick ...

Comment 2 Bernhard Schiffner 2018-09-24 19:28:14 UTC

Seems to be that on some occasions identity name and/or email name are compared against the full user name and the "Ich" is inserted in some place.

these are not:
- new additional identity is created with old email name and address and set as standard

these are:
- old identity gets deleted, new steps up as standard, comparisation executed, bingo
- others, I can't describe exactly

Comment 3 Martin Steigerwald 2018-09-24 20:19:15 UTC

It is possible to disable that functionality. I digged in the settings, but I do not find it right now. But I disabled that functionality a long time ago. I suggest you ask in kdepim-users mailing list how to disable it.

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2022-12-01 04:34:56 UTC

Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 5 Bernhard Schiffner 2022-12-05 10:36:34 UTC

Thanks Justin for touching this old bug.
It is per today (2022-12-05) still active / reproduceable / annoying.

The main problem occurs when copying (^C) an email into an other document. You can't see on later reading who (the long identity) wrote the mail in question.

I usea quite recent KDE NEON on different PC with different accounts and it happens regularily.
In the time since, I digged into the code of kmail, but with no success ...