Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

suddenly, I have the problem in Evolution Email, that email bodies are not shown anymore, but only the headers.
This affects my private email account as well as my email account for work. Maybe I have changed some setting,
but I cannot remember to have done that.

Any idea?

Regards
Christoph

[didier gaumet]

Hello,

I have had just the same problem. I think it is caused by the last
security upgrade by unattended-upgrades of these packages:
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

in the unattended-upgrades mail that informed me of the upgrade,
needrestart-session added that:

User sessions running outdated binaries:
didier @ user manager service: bwrap[2629], evolution[2417],
gnome-session=
-b[2185], systemd[1956]
Log ended: 2023-05-04 09:35:34

So I restarted my gdm session (and thus Evolution)
And since then, Evolution does not show email bodies

It seems to me to be a regression bug likely caused by the upgrade of
one the four packages above (I have done a dpkg-reconfigure of them,
without success)

[Christoph Pleger]

>
Hello,

> I have had just the same problem. I think it is caused by the last
> security upgrade by unattended-upgrades of these packages:
> gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0
> gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

Ah, thank you very much for that information. In the meanwhile, I found
that there is already a bug report available at Debian about that.

Regards
Christoph

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

didier gaumet <didier...@gmail.com> writes:

> Le 04/05/2023 à 09:54, Christoph Pleger a écrit :
>> Hello,
>> suddenly, I have the problem in Evolution Email, that email bodies
>> are not shown anymore, but only the headers.
>> This affects my private email account as well as my email account
>> for work. Maybe I have changed some setting,
>> but I cannot remember to have done that.
>> Any idea?
>
> Hello,
>
> I have had just the same problem. I think it is caused by the last
> security upgrade by unattended-upgrades of these packages:
> gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0
> gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

Me too!
After 'sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade', i met same problem.

This is obvious bug.

> in the unattended-upgrades mail that informed me of the upgrade,
> needrestart-session added that:
>
> User sessions running outdated binaries:
> didier @ user manager service: bwrap[2629], evolution[2417],
> gnome-session=
> -b[2185], systemd[1956]
> Log ended: 2023-05-04 09:35:34
>
> So I restarted my gdm session (and thus Evolution)
> And since then, Evolution does not show email bodies
>
> It seems to me to be a regression bug likely caused by the upgrade of
> one the four packages above (I have done a dpkg-reconfigure of them,
> without success)
>
>

My package is:
Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Evolution 3.38.3-1+deb11u1

Sincerely, Byung-Hee

--
^고맙습니다 _布德天下_ 감사합니다_^))//

[Tixy]

That's good, because I too can only read email by hitting Ctrl-U to
view the source.

--
Tixy

[zithro]

A recent email from the Debian security team confirms this (Advisory
DSA-5396-2) :

"The webkit2gtk update released as 5396-1 introduced a compatibility
problem that caused Evolution to display e-mail incorrectly. Evolution
has been updated to solve this issue.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.38.3-1+deb11u2."

[Cindy Sue Causey]

Am almost simultaneously reading this thread AND the
Debian-Security-Announce post about the same:

In part, it says:

"Package : evolution
Debian Bug : 1035469

The webkit2gtk update released as 5396-1 introduced a compatibility
problem that caused Evolution to display e-mail incorrectly. Evolution
has been updated to solve this issue."

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2023/msg00088.html

The bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035469

The security involvement appears to be that one current fix is to
downgrade which "leaves the user with an unpatched version of WebKit".

Cindy :)
--
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* runs with birdseed *

[Tixy]

On Thu, 2023-05-04 at 20:09 +0200, zithro wrote:
>
> A recent email from the Debian security team confirms this (Advisory
> DSA-5396-2) :
>
> "The webkit2gtk update released as 5396-1 introduced a compatibility
> problem that caused Evolution to display e-mail incorrectly. Evolution
> has been updated to solve this issue.
>
> For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in
> version 3.38.3-1+deb11u2."
>

Yep, just updated and the problem is fixed by

evolution (3.38.3-1+deb11u2) bullseye-security; urgency=medium

* Cherry pick a couple of upstream patches to solve regressions caused
by the upgrade to WebKitGTK 2.40.x:
- debian/patches/frame-flattening.patch: display email bodies properly
(Closes: #1035469).
- debian/patches/scroll-preview-messages.patch: allow scrolling
message previews with the space bar.

-- Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> Thu, 04 May 2023 17:54:18 +0200

[Jim Popovitch]

On May 4, 2023 6:13:04 PM UTC, Cindy Sue Causey <butterf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The security involvement appears to be that one current fix is to
>downgrade which "leaves the user with an unpatched version of WebKit".
>
>Cindy :)

While that wasn't my intention when I wrote it, I'm happy to see the rush of attention that got this issue resolved for everyone. Excellent job Debian team!

-Jim P.

[황병희]

2023-05-04 (목), 18:21 +0000, Jim Popovitch:

Also i resolved, thanks!

Sincerely, Byung-Hee

[didier gaumet]

Le 04/05/2023 à 20:21, Jim Popovitch a écrit :
[...]
> Excellent job Debian team!

+1 Great. Hats down to Debian folks :-)