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Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#9115 closed defect (duplicate)

hide cc: email-address better from other users

Reported by: flyhigh <lowflight66@…> Owned by:
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: ticket system Version: 0.11.6
Severity: major Keywords: email address CC
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Description

The email-addresses shown under cc: are way to long/much info that it is easy to get the whole address using a web-search-engine. Since this information is not quite usefule for normal user please hide it or at least shorten the address better, that you do not get the full address that easily.

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comment:1 by Remy Blank, 14 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

E-mail addresses are already obfuscated, unless you have EMAIL_VIEW permission. You won't see any e-mail addresses in the CC list on this site, for example (e.g. #1106).

by flyhigh <lowflight66@…>, 14 years ago

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by flyhigh <lowflight66@…>, 14 years ago

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comment:2 by flyhigh <lowflight66@…>, 14 years ago

I do !

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and even they shortened, it is often not that hard to get the full address, if you have at least the full username and only need the mail-server to get the full email-address.

It is also not that hard to fish all the usernames and extend it with the most common mail-provider.

→ spam

by the way, my username and my email-address are shown. - I hope this is only offered to me and everyone else only sees my username.

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comment:3 by flyhigh <lowflight66@…>, 14 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: closedreopened

comment:4 by Remy Blank, 14 years ago

Let me clarify:

  • You're not seeing complete e-mail addresses, you see obfuscated e-mail addresses. The screenshots confirm the feature is working as advertised.
  • No, guessing the domain name is not easy in the general case. Sure, you can try to add gmail.com and see if it works, and you probably will get a few hits. Still, there are millions of domains out there, so this won't work sufficiently well.
  • Again, you're not seeing your own complete e-mail address (except in the edit fields), but an obfuscated version. The address in the edit field is only shown to you.

So the current feature is working as designed. I don't think it's worth adding a possibility to hide e-mail addresses completely. What do others think?

comment:5 by flyhigh <lowflight66@…>, 14 years ago

My opinion:
I think this is no useful information for normal user, maybe the total number, but that's it.

and the trac-user-name is sufficient, you do not need a email-address.

in reply to:  5 comment:6 by Christian Boos, 14 years ago

Component: generalticket system
Keywords: CC added
Resolution: duplicate
Status: reopenedclosed

Replying to flyhigh <lowflight66@…>:

My opinion:
I think this is no useful information for normal user, maybe the total number, but that's it.

Well, RoundUp shows the nosy list as a list of users, JIRA shows the count of watchers, Bugzilla shows the full list of e-mails unobfuscated, so there's really no general "rule" here.

and the trac-user-name is sufficient, you do not need a email-address.

This is a more general matter, deciding what kind of user information to show (see also #7339 and #3737). Like rblank said, it's not worth special casing the CC: field.

When you do have EMAIL_VIEW, seeing the full list of address in the CC list is useful, at least as long as we don't have #2456 and a user profile page.

So I'm not against the feature, but it should rather be done with the whole system in mind rather than a specific hack for the CC: list, and I think this is what the #7339 ticket is about.

Closing as duplicate.

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