The email subject used to be translated to the language of
the user who requested the sponsorship. This was a bug since
the recipient of the emails are Zulip's support staff and
not the user who requested the sponsorship.
We're migrating to using the cleaner zulip.com domain, which involves
changing all of our links from ReadTheDocs and other places to point
to the cleaner URL.
Popular email clients like Gmail will automatically linkify link-like
content present in an HTML email they receive, even if it doesn't have
links in it. This made it possible to include what in Gmail will be a
user-controlled link in invitation emails that Zulip sends, which a
spammer/phisher could try to take advantage of to send really bad spam
(the limitation of having the rest of the invitation email HTML there
makes it hard to do something compelling here).
We close this opportunity by structuring our emails to always show the
user's name inside an existing link, so that Gmail won't do new
linkification, and add a test to help ensure we don't remove this
structure in a future design change.
Co-authored-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
This fixes missing translation tags in our missed-message emails,
which is surely the most user-facing part of the production that
wasn't internationalized.
Fixes: #14398
We now prevent these variations:
* <hr/>
* <hr />
* <br/>
* <br />
We could enforce similar consistency for other void
tags, if we wished, but these two are particularly
prevalent.
Previously, the send_custom_email code path leaked files in paths that
were not `.gitignored`, under templates/zerver/emails.
This became problematic when we added automated tests for this code
path, as it meant we leaked these files every time `test-backend` ran.
Fix this by ensuring all the files we generate are in this special
subdirectory.
The alt text of the leading images were displayed as preview
content in inbox by email clients like gmail. Since the leading
images were used mostly for decoration this made the preview
content gibberish. It's fine to set the alt attributes to empty
from accessibility point of view since the old alt attributes
did't added any meaningful information.
Hopefully this does a better job of spurring people to action, and also
suggests a self-service fix if they don't (i.e. contacting the person that
invited them).
Making sender name go in-line with message body only if
the html starts with <p> tag since it won't look good
if the message starts with a code snippet, ul, etc.
If message starts with p tag we can safely assume that
it can go in-line with sender name.
Anders Kaseorg
Vishnu KS
Tim Abbott
Tim Abbott
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Steve Howell
Rishi Gupta
Mateusz Mandera