101621 - plain-text email composer doesn't quote using > characters

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

I use the plain text email composer exclusively. 
When I reply to an email, it puts the original email text in line,
without the ">" characters in front of the lines, but with a "begin original
message" line.  I find this style of quote text absolutely unusable without
WAY too much manual work to put in the > characters.

The Mail/news reader has a feature that displays lines differently if they
begin with ">".  So, why doesn't the composer generate those lines??

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

I must correct something I wrote. 
I wrote "When I reply to an email".
The problem I described occurs only when forwarding an email with the text
"in line". 
But the complaint is the same.  The text should be quoted as in a reply, IMO.

Comment 2

[Sheela Ravindran]

Based on reporter's comments that it is for forwarding and not replying to the 
mail that we do not quote > the text.  But 4.x has the same behavior. We only 
quote when replying and not forwarding inline.  

JFD,
Is this behavior ok or we should be quoting the text with '>' while forwarding 
inline too?  

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

That's the correct behavior of Forward inline. Only replies quote the original
message. Invalid

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Right, it's separated by "Original Message", which is the whole point of forward.