Bug 399043

Summary: KMail setting Allow messages to load external references from Internet is ignored
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Sudhir Khanger <sudhir>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: cousinmarc, pinaraf
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.8.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Sudhir Khanger 2018-09-25 04:25:50 UTC 
SUMMARY

KMail never loads external references from the internet even though it has been explicitly allowed in the Settings.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable Settings>Configure KMail>Security>Reading>Allow messages to load external references from Internet
2. Open a mail with external references
3. 

EXPECTED RESULT

It should load external references like images from internet.


ACTUAL RESULT

A message is constantly displayed which is as follows

>Note: This HTML message may contain external references to images etc. For security/privacy reasons external references are not loaded. If you trust the sender of this message then you can load the external references for this message by clicking here.


SOFTWARE VERSIONS
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.13.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.48.0
Qt Version: 5.11.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/9ijf2x/how_to_get_rid_of_load_the_external_references/
Comment 1 Marc Cousin 2018-10-20 08:01:54 UTC 
I have the exact same problem, with KMail version 5.9.2.

KDE Frameworks 5.51.0
Qt 5.11.2 (built against 5.11.2)
Comment 2 Pierre Ducroquet 2018-10-22 17:51:19 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 395711 ***