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Mailmate Allows Editing in Message Viewer Pane

#1473

Somehow, a message I received causes Mailmate to allow me to type within the displayed message in the viewer pane. Please see the attached video.

Steps

  1. Receive a message (maybe only from the Microsoft Outlook iOS app?)

  2. View the message in a layout that shows a message preview

  3. Click on part of the message's text

Expected Results

I can highlight text but not edit text.

Actual Results

I can edit (delete, add, modify) the message text.

Version

MailMate/5234 MacBookPro11,3/x86_64/8/10.11.5

Reported by Matt Gray · May 20th, 2016 @ 06:04 PM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

Activity

  1. benny
    benny

    Can you share this email with me using “Message ▸ Forward as Attachment”? (Maybe an anonymized version if you know to do that using a text editor.)

    I'm guessing that somehow the message contains an editable area (using HTML), e.g., using contenteditable. I haven't really considered if that is something MailMate should somehow prevent.

    May 20th, 2016 @ 07:23 PM

  2. benny
    benny

    It's probably the same issue as described for another email client here.

    May 20th, 2016 @ 07:28 PM

  3. Matt Gray
    Matt Gray

    I emailed you off-ticket with a sample (non-anonymized) message.

    May 22nd, 2016 @ 05:27 PM

  4. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to bluesky

    @Matt: Thanks, that worked. My first attempt to fix it kind of worked, but it also prevented selecting text in the same text field (which is worse). I also noted that Apple Mail behaves like MailMate. Right now, I'm leaning towards not “fixing” this, and I'm not really sure I should fix it even if it was easy. It's an Outlook bug and it does not appear to have any serious security related side effects (the message is not really changed).

    May 23rd, 2016 @ 09:20 AM

  5. Matt Gray
    Matt Gray

    @benny: Thanks for taking a look. I agree with the direction you're leaning. For a moment, I thought I had found some rare and interesting MailMate bug. This feels like a very low priority or a wontfix to me as well.

    May 23rd, 2016 @ 10:49 PM

  6. Mika Raunio
    Mika Raunio
    • State changed from bluesky to new

    One concrete usability effect of this is that links inside the contenteditable are not clickable.

    Considering how rare these messages are, though, agree on dev resources being better spent on other issues.

    August 8th, 2023 @ 12:35 AM

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