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gmail bug (text wraps out of layout)

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
18 years ago3,031 views

Just today while i was opening a mail which i think might be a spam, when i opened the mail it doesnt had any options like show options from address etc

the only thing that mail contained is the text, check this screenshot below
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http://smartjean4u.googlepages.com/gmailbug.gif

and when i scrolled the mail i found the sender information below with more options just the screenshot below
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http://smartjean4u.googlepages.com/gmailbug2.gif

actually the text was jumped from the container ................

Is it a new kinda gmail bug ?

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Wow, that's interesting? A "Google for your Domain" bug?

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

yeah! thats what i was wondering..........

but i can prove the same bug in ordinary gmail account.......

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

and Hoachi here is the screenshot of the same bug in regular google mail..

http://smartjean4u.googlepages.com/normalgmail.gif

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

This isn't a gmail bug, this has to do with the original message. I've seen this before in my hotmail acct and in ms outlook. the spammer did something wrong and put the body in the subject. It's even weirder when there's HTML (the raw HTML code shows up)

Piotr Konieczny [PersonRank 9]

18 years ago #

Paste the source of the e-mail. (more options -> show orginal)

Kevin Fox [PersonRank 4]

18 years ago #

Sankar, can you send me the source of the email ("more options" -> "show original") at: kfox at google? I'll pass it along.

Thanks,
Kevin

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

I could replicate that by sending an email with a huge subject from a Yahoo account. Gmail shortens the subject when sending a mail, but keeps it intact when receiving one.

NateDawg [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

This could be accidental or it could be an attempt to get around google's filters to effect the ads. I've seen in the last two week a couple of emails with keywords being stuffed into font tags that had nothing to do with the message (not that the message made sense any ways :) Anyhow, neat find.

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