115498 - Using HTML composer in mail/news a ">" is added between quoted and new material

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 165077

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Holger Metzger]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [de] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
BuildID:    2001121508

Using the HTML composer for mail/news, when quoting something:

Example:
---------
> blahblahblah
> blahblahyaddayadda

My reply here....
-----------------------
turns into the following when it has been sent:
-----------------------
> blahblahblah
> blahblahyaddayadda
>
My reply here....
-----------------------
and extra ">" is added between quoted and new material.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply to a message using the HTML composer.

Actual Results:  ">" is added between quoted and new material.

Expected Results:  ">" shouldn't be added.

This might be connected to #102842.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I see this too and it annoys me.

Bug might be in the serializer (Browser: DOM To Text), not sure.

Holger, can't you confirm bugs? CONFIRMing.

Comment 2

[Holger Metzger]

> Holger, can't you confirm bugs?

I wouldn't dare! :-)

-Holger

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I see this bug only, if I reply to a non-flowed mail (i.e. the ones emitted by 
4.x etc., not Mozilla. (flowed and non-flowed plaintext converters generate
different HTML.)

Comment 4

[Holger Metzger]

I see the extra ">" all the time, whether the original /plaintext/ mail was in
f=f or not.
When the original has been in html and I reply in html or plaintext the extra
">" isn't there.

- Holger

Comment 5

[Bartosz Wucke]

Seems it's not a bug, it's a (mis)feature to separate different quotation levels.
For me notoriously appears in plaintext editing - not always, in some 90%
(couldn't make out the rule though) and is very annoying with deeply nested
replies, i.e reasonable:

>>>>> a
>>>> b
>>> c
>> d
> e

f

after two replies turns into annoying:

>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> b
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> c
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> d
>>>>
>>>>
>>> e
>>>
>>>
>>f
>>
>>
>g
>

h

Can it be related to Bug 34941?

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> Can it be related to Bug 34941?

No, that bug is about the plaintext composer, while this one is about the HTML
composer.
And no, it's not a feature.

I'll mark bug 122925 a dup of this one. Not sure, why I filed a new bug back
then. (Oversight, different bug?)

Here's the reproduction from the other bug:

Reproduction:
1. Reply to a non-flowed plaintext mail (as sent by 4.x).
2. Put cursor in the quote, hit Return to break it.
3. Enter your text
4. Send as plaintext

Actual result:

Somebody wrote:
> quote
> quote
> 
Your text

> quote

Exptected result:

Somebody wrote:
> quote
> quote

Your text

> quote

Additional Comments:
That might be the problem I describe in
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102842#c12>, I don't remember anymore.
This might be libmime or Composition.

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** Bug 122925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

reporter of bug 183134 claims to see this bug when replying in plain text mode 

Comment 9

[Brian Rogers]

*** Bug 183134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The dupe is a later bug but has very detailed analysis of the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165077 ***