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Try to prevent autolinking of displaynames by email readers (#19169) #19183

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Backport #19169

Unfortunately many email readers will (helpfully) detect url or url-like names and
automatically create links to them, even in HTML emails. This is not ideal when
usernames can have dots in them.

This PR tries to prevent this behaviour by sticking ZWJ characters between dots and
also set the meta tag to prevent format detection.

Not every email template has been changed in this way - just the activation emails but
it may be that we should be setting the above meta tag in all of our emails too.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton art27@cantab.net

…#19169)

Backport go-gitea#19169

Unfortunately many email readers will (helpfully) detect url or url-like names and
automatically create links to them, even in HTML emails. This is not ideal when
usernames can have dots in them.

This PR tries to prevent this behaviour by sticking ZWJ characters between dots and
also set the meta tag to prevent format detection.

Not every email template has been changed in this way - just the activation emails but
it may be that we should be setting the above meta tag in all of our emails too.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
@zeripath zeripath added this to the 1.16.5 milestone Mar 23, 2022
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@GiteaBot GiteaBot added lgtm/done This PR has enough approvals to get merged. There are no important open reservations anymore. and removed lgtm/need 1 This PR needs approval from one additional maintainer to be merged. labels Mar 23, 2022
@lafriks lafriks merged commit bb0e212 into go-gitea:release/v1.16 Mar 23, 2022
@zeripath zeripath deleted the backport-19169-v1.16 branch March 23, 2022 13:24
@zeripath zeripath added the topic/security Something leaks user information or is otherwise vulnerable. Should be fixed! label Mar 23, 2022
zeripath added a commit to zeripath/gitea that referenced this pull request Mar 23, 2022
 ## [1.16.5](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/1.16.5) - 2022-03-23

* BREAKING
  * Bump to build with go1.18 (go-gitea#19120 et al) (go-gitea#19127)
* SECURITY
  * Prevent redirect to Host (2) (go-gitea#19175) (go-gitea#19186)
  * Try to prevent autolinking of displaynames by email readers (go-gitea#19169) (go-gitea#19183)
  * Clean paths when looking in Storage (go-gitea#19124) (go-gitea#19179)
  * Do not send notification emails to inactive users (go-gitea#19131) (go-gitea#19139)
  * Do not send activation email if manual confirm is set (go-gitea#19119) (go-gitea#19122)
* ENHANCEMENTS
  * Use the new/choose link for New Issue on project page (go-gitea#19172) (go-gitea#19176)
* BUGFIXES
  * Fix compare link in active feeds for new branch (go-gitea#19149) (go-gitea#19185)
  * Redirect .wiki/* ui link to /wiki (go-gitea#18831) (go-gitea#19184)
  * Ensure deploy keys with write access can push (go-gitea#19010) (go-gitea#19182)
  * Ensure that setting.LocalURL always has a trailing slash (go-gitea#19171) (go-gitea#19177)
  * Cleanup protected branches when deleting users & teams (go-gitea#19158) (go-gitea#19174)
  * Use IterateBufferSize whilst querying repositories during adoption check (go-gitea#19140) (go-gitea#19160)
  * Fix NPE /repos/issues/search when not signed in (go-gitea#19154) (go-gitea#19155)
  * Use custom favicon when viewing static files if it exists (go-gitea#19130) (go-gitea#19152)
  * Fix the editor height in review box (go-gitea#19003) (go-gitea#19147)
  * Ensure isSSH is set whenever DISABLE_HTTP_GIT is set (go-gitea#19028) (go-gitea#19146)
  * Fix wrong scopes caused by empty scope input (go-gitea#19029) (go-gitea#19145)
  * Make migrations SKIP_TLS_VERIFY apply to git too (go-gitea#19132) (go-gitea#19141)
  * Handle email address not exist (go-gitea#19089) (go-gitea#19121)
* MISC
  * Update json-iterator to allow compilation with go1.18 (go-gitea#18644) (go-gitea#19100)
  * Update golang.org/x/crypto (go-gitea#19097) (go-gitea#19098)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
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