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>. -- OZ LINDEN | Engineering Director, Second Life email or hangouts: o...@lindenlab.com <mailto:o...@lindenlab.com> | Real Life: Scott Lawrence LINDEN LAB | Create Virtual Experiences <https://www.lindenlab.com>
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