Clicking in HTML e-mails results in selecting arbitraty pieces of text

[Frederik Elwert]

I am using Evolution on an up-to-date Precise system.

I noticed that when clicking in an HTML e-mail, some seemingly random piece of text will be selected/highlighted. The selection ends where I clicked, but I cannot find a pattern as to where it starts. Also, this prevents properly selecting text, as clicking and dragging also will result in fairly random text selection. Links are not opened when clicking on them.

These effects do not appear with plain text e-mails, only HTML e-mails are affected.

I recorded a short screencast to show the issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 21 17:07:02 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-22 (58 days ago)

[Sebastian (szm)]

Bug affects me too, but for html e-mails only.
(Unfortunately I get system errors with launchpad, it is impossible to use for me.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jérémi Couillard (couillard45682)]

Affect me to, on a up to date precise (x64) laptop.

[Sebastian (szm)]

This bug is a duplicate of Bug #952307

(Due to an unrelated bug within launchpad itself unfortunately I cannot mark this bug as duplicate.)