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Bug 1284563

Summary:	Searches for user avatars on gravatar cannot be disabled
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Simo Sorce <ssorce>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Milan Crha <mcrha>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.2	CC:	jkoten, mbarnes, mclasen, vbenes
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	evolution-3.12.11-17.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: always tries to get data from gravatar.com Consequence: whenever a mail was shown, evolution asked gravatar.com whether the sender has a picture there (using email hash), which is not always wanted by the users Fix: add an option to enable the search of photos at gravatar.com, which is disabled by default Result: users can decide whether the gravatar.com site is contacted or not	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-11-04 01:06:22 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description Simo Sorce 2015-11-23 15:16:37 UTC

If you enable displaying the face header (a picture of the user embedded in headers or the addressbook) then evolution silently also leaks data to gravatar.com in search for a picture of the email sender.
The upstream vertsion has a checkbox to disable searching on gravatar.com, please backport.

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2015-11-23 16:00:47 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. I forgot to backport it during the rebase phase, I'm sorry for that. The corresponding upstream bug is [1]. I'd also use a following upstream commit [2].

It also requires translation updates, as the [1] adds new UI strings into Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers, the place where the new option to disable gravatar searches can be found.

An alternative interim solution would be to not ship the gravatar module in RHEL for now.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730743
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=7d28bdf277a

Comment 4 Milan Crha 2016-03-17 08:59:36 UTC

The above patch adds at Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers tab, Senders Photo section (at the top), an option:
  [ ] Search gravatar.com for the photograph of sender
which is disabled by default.

Comment 6 Milan Crha 2016-03-21 11:58:14 UTC

I updated the patch for the 3.12.11-17, due to missed .ui file in the package (not locally).

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 01:06:22 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2228.html