[Evolution] Bug#740033: evolution: Flushing Outbox after re-opening failed message changes From: address to default account

[David Z]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.4.4-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Forwarded-To: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725113

(using 3.4.4 as included in Debian Wheezy)

Very serious potential privacy concerns from this bug.

To reproduce:

1. Set up multiple mail accounts in Evolution 3.4.4 (and probably later
versions as well...),

2. Make one of them the Default account,

3. Have mail sending configuration mis-configured on a non-default account (ie,
wrong SMTP port),

4. Compose a message with mis-configured account,

5. Hit "Send" button, wait for send timeout, select "Save to Outbox,"

6. Fix SMTP configuration for that account, (or perhaps that's not even
necessary)

7. Select Outbox under "On This Computer" (not under an account),

8. Open the failed message (note that it shows the correct From: address before
this, in the preview pane),

9. The message fully opened from the Outbox now has the default account as its
From: field,

10. Flushing the outbox will actually send the message from the default account
and NOT the account it was composed by.


I am assuming that this is related to
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317337 and possibly
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336495 but it may not be.

This is a very troubling bug (or set of bugs) for anyone with very distinct and
separate personal/work/superhero/etc email addresses.

Thanks for your efforts.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                     1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.49
ii  evolution-common         3.4.4-3
ii  evolution-data-server    3.4.4-3
ii  gconf-service            3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gconf2                   3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0              2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                    2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                1.12.2-3
ii  libcamel-1.2-33          3.4.4-3
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0     1.2.0-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.100.2-1
ii  libebackend-1.2-2        3.4.4-3
ii  libebook-1.2-13          3.4.4-3
ii  libecal-1.2-11           3.4.4-3
ii  libedataserver-1.2-16    3.4.4-3
ii  libedataserverui-3.0-1   3.4.4-3
ii  libenchant1c2a           1.6.0-7
ii  libevolution             3.4.4-3
ii  libgail-3-0              3.4.2-7
ii  libgconf-2-4             3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgdata13               0.12.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2     3.4.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.4.2-7
ii  libgtkhtml-4.0-0         4.4.4-1
ii  libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0  4.4.4-1
ii  libgweather-3-0          3.4.1-1+build1
ii  libical0                 0.48-2
ii  libmx-1.0-2              1.4.6-1
ii  libnotify4               0.7.5-1
ii  libnspr4                 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u1
ii  libnss3                  2:3.14.5-1
ii  libnss3-1d               2:3.14.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.30.0-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1             2.38.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0             3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libxml2                  2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2
ii  psmisc                   22.19-1+deb7u1

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  bogofilter         1.2.2+dfsg1-2
ii  evolution-plugins  3.4.4-3
ii  evolution-webcal   2.32.0-2+b1
ii  yelp               3.4.2-1+b1

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-dbg                   <none>
pn  evolution-exchange              <none>
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  <none>
ii  gnupg                           1.4.12-7+deb7u3
ii  network-manager                 0.9.4.0-10

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