self contact, and some other contacts, erroneously marked as a bot

[Raiden-GH]

"Saved Messages" are called a bot.

Screenshot

macOS 15.2
DC-Desktop 1.50

[WofWca]

That's kinda crazy. It's not the case for me

Here is the relevant code:

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/blob/89bdf41128530d9ac9213d4d3dfd3a48dd0e2dd2/packages/frontend/src/components/screens/MainScreen.tsx#L283-L287

contacts[0] is supposed to be the self-contact.

Is your account marked as bot somehow??

[r10s]

we got reports here and there, that chats are marked accidentally as "Bot", not only "Saved Messages". however, no way yet to reproduce it.

wondering if it recovers or if the chats stay as "Bot"

maybe there is some read-receipt, status-update or sync-message that sets "auto-submitted" or so somehow wrong - or the condition for setting is_bot in receive_imf is wrong

[WofWca]

Well, we can just reorder the checks for now, so that isSelfTalk takes precedence.

[WofWca]

Well, we can just reorder the checks for now, so that isSelfTalk takes precedence.

But this will only solve it for "Saved messages" and not conversations:

we got reports here and there, that chats are marked accidentally as "Bot", not only "Saved Messages"

[iequidoo]

Seems to be a core issue. Feel free to move it there, moreover if there are cases reported for other platforms

[r10s]

@adbenitez and me were marked as being a bots to each other after both enabling location streaming in our one-to-one chat.

maybe there is sth. wrong with the auto-generated location messages

[iequidoo]

Indeed, this is the true reason of the bug. Location-only, sync and webxdc status update messages add Auto-Submitted: auto-generated:

            SystemMessage::LocationOnly
            | SystemMessage::MultiDeviceSync
            | SystemMessage::WebxdcStatusUpdate => {
                // This should prevent automatic replies,                                                                                                                                                            
                // such as non-delivery reports.                                                                                                                                                                     
                //                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                // See <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834>                                                                                                                                                         
                //                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                // Adding this header without encryption leaks some                                                                                                                                                  
                // information about the message contents, but it can                                                                                                                                                
                // already be easily guessed from message timing and size.                                                                                                                                           
                headers.push(Header::new(
                    "Auto-Submitted".to_string(),
                    "auto-generated".to_string(),
                ));

But only webxdc status updates are excluded from the is_bot logic on the receiver side. I reproduced this. Going to fix