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diedie2 wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 08:09Or is this also intended?

Not intended, but a known bug that will be fixed in 2.28.1, see https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36810

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We are aware of that.
Anonymous access is (temporarily) disabled due to DDOS attacks.

There is no configuration option for that.
You would have to write a plugin to get this functionality.

See https://mantisbt.org/docs/master/en-US/ ... ev.plugins
A lot of examples can be found on https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins

The following script might help
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt-to ... _issue.php

Had the following discussion some months ago https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=35870
For a very old version, a user provided a solution with truncated field https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9550

I don't have free time to have a deeper look and provide support for this.
Checking existing plugins might help.
E.g. https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/Sni ... ippets.php

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RandyA wrote: 20 Nov 2025, 22:29 In other contexts, it probably does not matter.

If you create an issue and user myfishingwebsite.com adds a note to it, you will get an email notification containing user name myfishingwebsite.com.

I propose that $s_new_account_greeting be changed for all languages and stop including the username.

That would fix this single workflow.
I agree that this is a very important workflow in terms of security (maybe even the most important one), but there are a lot more workflows where the username ...

MantisBT is sending plain text (as opposd to HTML) email, so I agree to your statement concerning email clients.
Even for HTML email it's questionable to convert such strings to links.

You could restrict user names by setting MantisBT configuration option

THO wrote: 14 Nov 2025, 09:33 I use VEditor 1.1.0 as text Editor and I can past image in the bug description.

Ok, so there is no need to change any code in standard MantisBT.

Is your issue fixed by increasing $g_max_textarea_length ?

How do you paste an image into a bug description?
Do you have installed a plugin for that?
Bug descriptions can just contain text in standard MantisBT.

I suspect the changed behavior is caused by the changes to fix https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=35893
If I am right, you could add the ...

then copy over the modified email_api.php from the old install to new

You lost all changes of this file between 2.27.0 and 2.27.3

MantisBT 2.27.3 is a hotfix release addressing a couple of regression issues affecting Admin Checks introduced by 2.27.2

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Note that MantisBT 2.27 is only compatible with PHP up to version 8.3. Upcoming 2.28.0 release will bring support for PHP 8.4 and later.