Binary package hint: evolution
Using Evolution 2.28.0-0ubuntu4 in Karmic on 16/10/9
Steps to reproduce:
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Compose a new email, make sure the type is set to HTML. In the body type:
"Hello
Goodbye"
On the blank line go to Insert and Images and select any image (preferably JPG or PNG, with no spaces in the filename or path). In my case the file the file was dot0.jpg. Send the email.
Expected result:
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Recipient sees Image inline.
Actual result:
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Image is not in the message as it wasn't sent as part of the email. If you go into the Sent folder and look at the source of the email you will see the following:
--=-8CEnx4CokdqB8sI3Kewb
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello
Goodbye
--=-8CEnx4CokdqB8sI3Kewb
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.28.0">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello<BR>
<IMG SRC="" ALIGN="bottom" BORDER="0"><BR>
Goodbye<BR>
<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
--=-8CEnx4CokdqB8sI3Kewb--
The image holder is tagged like an external image but there is nothing in the source field. For emails sent from Gmail you would see something like src="cid:ii_12457b63379b47d9" and then an additional part of the email to encode the image with the same content-id (i.e. --0016e6d566adb835cc0475f6a2b9 Content-Type: image/png; name="dots_black.png"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: <ii_12457b63379b47d9> X-Attachment-Id: ii_12457b63379b47d9)
In actual fact the email doesn't even have to go externally. If you alter your smtp settings so it will fail to send then you can view the source in your outbox and it will be missing the image info.
Surely being able to insert an image is a basic feature that should have been working years ago?
BTW I have verified this on a two different machines and a variety of new and old user accounts.
This seems to be a regression related to Ubuntu. I've just tried OpenSuse 11.2 alpha (milestone 8) which has Evolution 2.28 in it and this bug is not present. Composing a message with an image in works as expected.