Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [evolution-patches] Fix mailto: handling of arbitrary headers.

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

I'm not sure if this actually applies to this code path but if the
launch from command line mailto: handling passes through here it would
definitely seem appropriate to be able to set the From header to any one
of the configured accounts.

--Larry

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:17, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 15:57 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Against -HEAD.
> 
> Was going to resend for 1.4 branch too but in fact the changelog applies
> cleanly there too.
> 
> > +			} else if (!strncasecmp (header, "from", len) ||
> > +				   !strncasecmp (header, "reply-to", len)) {
> > +				/* FIXME: Warn about nasty mailto: link? */
> 
> Looking at §7 of RFC2368 this isn't necessarily enough... I suspect we
> should have two lists of headers we know about...
> 
> 1. 'Safe' headers: CC, Subject, References, etc. 
>    Always allow a mailto: link to set these.
> 
> 2. 'Unsafe' headers: From, Reply-To, etc. 
>     Never allow a mailto: link to set these.
> 
> 3. Others.
>     Ask the user for permission before allowing them?
> 
> Certainly the current behaviour of just putting them into the mail we
> send is not encouraged by either the RFC or common sense :)