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Desktop application for Mail and Calendar, made with Electron
GNU General Public License v3.0
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peek at links in email #18

Open qrkourier opened 3 months ago

qrkourier commented 3 months ago

I'm unable to peek at links without clicking them. In the web app, hovering the cursor over an HTML hyperlink reveals the link target in the browser's status bar. There's no tooltip or status bar equivalent in the Proton Mail desktop app, or at least not in the Linux build.

I would normally peek at the link target to confirm the domain name of the URL is expected. The problem with being unable to peek at links is that I can not evaluate whether an email is legitimate. For example, HTML hyperlinks may be deceptive, and clicking the link reveals to the malicious sender that the email was opened, a privacy concern. 

❯ apt show proton-mail
Package: proton-mail
Version: 1.0.1
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Proton
Installed-Size: 264 MB
Depends: libgtk-3-0, libnotify4, libnss3, libxtst6, xdg-utils, libatspi2.0-0, libdrm2, libgbm1, libxcb-dri3-0, kde-cli-tools | kde-runtime | trash-cli | libglib2.0-bin | gvfs-bin
Recommends: pulseaudio | libasound2
Suggests: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0, libgnome-keyring0, lsb-release
Homepage: https://proton.me/
Download-Size: unknown
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Proton official desktop application for Proton Mail and Proton Calendar
 Proton official desktop application for Proton Mail and Proton Calendar
qrkourier commented 3 months ago

As a workaround, I'm able to "View HTML" from the extra menu to evaluate link targets' legitimacy.