HTML email backgrounds can't be disabled, slow down emails and gets flagged as spam

[Ahmad Nassri]

Binary package hint: evolution

it seems HTML emails in Evolution always have a "background" property on the body tag in the HTML source...

ex: BACKGROUND="file:///home/USER"

where USER = your username ...

if you manually specify a background in the page properties, it seems to work fine, but by default there is no background specified, even if you manually set the option to "none" it still includes that property.

this causes problems on my work email system (running evolution) it slows down email loading when people try to open my emails and in most cases it gets flagged as junk.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Ahmad Nassri (ahmadnassri)]

Sebastien,

yes, this is reproducible, i tried a fresh install of evolution/ubuntu with the same result everytime.

steps to reproduce:
- send an HTML formated email to your self
- open the newly received email and check the email source
- look for <PAGE ... BACKGROUND="file://home/USERNAME">

hope this helps.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not confirming on jaunty there is no background by default, to sent to the code writter on bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the issue

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you send the bug to GNOME since you get the issue?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

did you send the bug to GNOME?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!