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Phabricator email aren't HTML valid / properly formatted
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Hello,

I am not sure if this is intended behavior but I noticed that Phabricator emails are not properly formatted - they aren't HTML valid and lack the plain text alternative part.

One example of such email message

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<table>
<tr>
<td style="">bbrdaric-test added a project: Some project.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
<div><strong>TASK DETAIL</strong>
<div><a href="https://phabricator.local/T123" rel="noreferrer">https://phabricator.local/T123</a>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div><strong>EMAIL PREFERENCES</strong>
<div><a href="https://phabricator.local/settings/panel/emailpreferences/" rel="noreferrer">https://phabricator.local/settings/panel/emailpreferences/</a>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div><strong>To: </strong>bbrdaric-test
<br>
</div>

Because of this, they run into our SpamAssassin Rules and eventually get marked as spam.

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin
X-Spam-Level: ******
X-Spam-Status: No, score=6.3 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_99,
BAYES_999,EXIM_ESV_DEFER,EXIM_HSV_DEFER,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG,
MIME_HTML_ONLY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no

https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/MIME_HTML_ONLY
https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG

I tried to find config option for sending plain-text emails, but as I can see, Phabricator supports sending only HTML emails?

Version Information

phabricator 8cb3706fe80fdd0fa416c114eda9363c7226c315 (Tue, Apr 25) (branched from 03d0e3fdbc890ca9670e8caaf20aa39ebd61d04b on origin)
arcanist 146693307f607ffa93dfb99599f1989d5b27e03d (Fri, Apr 21)
phutil 6fe33623cda69b7814a0767866400e09f4eadf3a (Thu, Apr 13)

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bbrdaric created this task.Apr 27 2017, 12:49 PM
avivey added a subscriber: avivey.Apr 27 2017, 4:21 PM

Which version of phabricator are you running? Email I get have a plain-text alternate, have no meta tag, and are formatted very differently.

not having <HTML> sounds both easy to fix, and a very nitpicky reason to mark a letter as spam.

bbrdaric updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 27 2017, 5:34 PM
bbrdaric added a comment.Apr 27 2017, 6:00 PM

Sorry, updated original task with version information. This is just one example message that got flagged, maybe some other messages have plain-text alternate?

Just checked other mails...it seems that all messages from Projects, Diffusion and Phriction come with just Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"

I found just a few messages with Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" and that's [Phabricator] New User "xyz" Awaiting Approval

Funny though, your comment email notification has multiparts :) and my instance sends similar email with text/html. How is that possible?

Subject: [Maniphest] [Commented On] T12649: Phabricator email aren't HTML valid / properly formatted
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0a29f62b9a6d4cf5a67a9f0e781eec3e"

--0a29f62b9a6d4cf5a67a9f0e781eec3e
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

avivey added a comment.
epriestley added a subscriber: epriestley.Apr 27 2017, 6:35 PM

Something is rewriting your outgoing mail. We do not send mail with a <meta ..> tag (and never have), nor mail which doesn't have a text part (and never have).

(If you're using SendGrid, it is likely SendGrid.)

(We do send some mail missing an HTML part, see T6576, but all mail has a text part.)

epriestley closed this task as Invalid.Apr 30 2017, 7:21 PM

Per above, I'm pretty confident this is on your end since I can't reproduce it and we don't generate mail like that.

Also, although it's not conclusive, phpmailer.smtp-encoding defaults to base64, not 7bit, further suggesting that something has rewritten the mail.

You can see the raw mail we attempt to send with bin/mail list-outbound / bin/mail show-outbound. I suspect it won't match what arrives in your client, and will also always have a text part.

If you think I'm mistaken, please file a new task with more complete reproduction instructions, e.g.:

  • Exactly how outbound mail is configured.
  • The bin/mail show-outbound output of a message which arrived with no text part.
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