[opensource-dev] Fix for sending Snapshot emails from RC regions

Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) oz at lindenlab.com
Mon Feb 27 11:11:04 PST 2017


Linden Lab has been making changes to further protect personally
identifying and other sensitive user information. As part of those
changes, we no longer send the full correct email address to the viewer
(an obfuscated form of the address is sent instead). This change was
deployed recently to some of the simulator RC channels.

At one time, the user's email address was used to initialize the From
address when using the Send Snapshot as Email (postcard) feature of the
viewer. For some time, the server has not been using the value sent from
the viewer for this (because it might have been set incorrectly by the
viewer), and the official viewer has not allowed modifying it, yet the
code to initialize and return it to the simulator was still there. The
viewer also had code to validate any value in that field (which, in
older versions, might have been edited by the user); this validation
code (correctly) fails when checking the obfuscated value sent by the
simulator in these new Release Candidate. This was reported as BUG-41443
<https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41443>; the effect is that
sending the snapshot fails (or, on any TPV that still allows modifying
the address, they will have to replace the obfuscated form with a valid
address, but the simulator will not use that value when sending the
email - it will use the address we have for that user in the database).

So that open source viewers can quickly release updates that are
compatible with the new email handling in the simulator, we have made
availablea standalone repository with the appropriate viewer change
<https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/viewer-postcard>.

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