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Can't see true sender anywhere when using Firefox Relay #7367

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AFlowOfCode opened this issue Nov 19, 2023 · 1 comment
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Can't see true sender anywhere when using Firefox Relay #7367

AFlowOfCode opened this issue Nov 19, 2023 · 1 comment
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type: bug Something is causing incorrect behavior or errors unconfirmed Newly reported issues awaiting triage or confirmation

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  • I have used the search function to see if someone else has already submitted the same bug report.
  • I will describe the problem with as much detail as possible.

App version

6.603

Where did you get the app from?

None

Android version

8.1.0

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Receive an email from an alias address provided by Firefox Relay
    1.1. One can easily be set up for free at https://relay.firefox.com/
  2. In the overall inbox/folder view (where multiple message previews are shown): notice that the original subject is displayed, but the sender is listed as the relay address, and the sub-header / preview text is "This email was sent to your alias...". On its face this behavior may make sense, as the "sender" is technically the relay email, but it is not useful or helpful. I will contrast it to Thunderbird for desktop which lists in the "correspondents" column the useful and helpful value of "sender@domain.com [via Relay] relay@mozmail.com".
  3. In the detailed view (after clicking on the message): The original sender is not displayed anywhere at all - instead it just shows relay@mozmail.com. Again I'll contrast this to Thunderbird desktop where the "from" field clearly shows who sent the message to the relay.

Note that item 3 and the issue title is not strictly true, as you can click to view the headers when in the detailed message view and dig through all of those to find the original sender. However this is inconvenient, the sender is not easy to quickly see among numerous other technical headers, and finding the sender this way may never occur to an average non-technical user.

Expected behavior

Allow me to view the true sender in the same way Thunderbird desktop does:
original@sender.com [via Relay] relay@mozmail.com

Actual behavior

Described thoroughly in steps to reproduce.

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@AFlowOfCode AFlowOfCode added type: bug Something is causing incorrect behavior or errors unconfirmed Newly reported issues awaiting triage or confirmation labels Nov 19, 2023
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glemco commented Dec 28, 2024

I confirm the bug on thunderbird 8.2, not sure how to debug it further, but I can add more information.
Emails through Firefox relay are received with the sender masked, the from field contains the original email in the name (padded with [via Relay]) and your own alias as actual sender. E.g. : original@email.org [via Relay]<alias@relay.firefox.com>
The reply-to field is instead replies@relay.firefox.com .

For any other sender, the preview of the message is the name, if there, but for Firefox relay emails, the preview shows only the email.
In practice, I would expect to see original@email.org [via Relay] but I see alias@relay.firefox.com.

The same behaviour is visible with the new format of relay emails (alias@mozmail.com)

My rough guess is that the name parser somehow fails if it finds an email address (or any unexpected characters) so only the address is shown.

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