127628 - Replying to email with no content-type does not include origional text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[u32858]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205
BuildID:    2002020511

Replying to email with no content-type does not include origional text.

The msg is displayed ok, but when i click reply it is not quoted 
I only see


[e-mail] wrote:


And nothing after

Its rather odd, as Forward quotes the text ok.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Check this email, i will paste into the bottom
2.Or email it to yourself and check how it comes out
3.

Actual Results:  I only see

[e-mail] wrote:

And nothing after

Expected Results:  Should quote the msg in txt format as I specified in Preferences

From - Mon Feb 25 12:55:57 2002
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Precedence: list
X-Bulkmail: 2.05
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
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Comment 1

[Todd Cohn]

For what it's worth, WFM- 2002022103/Win2000. (No Linux to test on.)

Couldn't figure out how to send this exact email to myself, but signed up for
the list and got a similar email.  Replyed and quoted just fine.  

Header:
From - Mon Feb 25 19:50:04 2002
X-UIDL: 69f28f2045cffd532b3de74760d84be8
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Envelope-to: [e-mail]
Received: <snip>
Received: <snip>
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Reg News Updates - Confirmation
X-Reg-Id: 18096
X-Reg-Xc: c540b66d
X-Reg-Email: [e-mail]
X-Reg-To-Line: [e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:43:51 +0000
X-UIDL: 69f28f2045cffd532b3de74760d84be8

Comment 2

[u32858]

I dont know how to do it on Mozilla but on my old email system outoing emails
were left as textfiles, so i could edit them manually after.

All you need to do is change the to address and put the email in such a file..

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

When you read an email in Mozilla, you can save it as file. Just give it a .eml
extension and then you will be able to "replay" in into a browser window. As we
save the source of the message as text, you can edit it in any text editor.

Comment 4

[u32858]

Attachment: testcase

> ------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2002-02-25 18:44
-------
> When you read an email in Mozilla, you can save it as file. Just give it a
.eml
> extension and then you will be able to "replay" in into a browser window. As
we
> save the source of the message as text, you can edit it in any text editor.


I'm not sure why you are telling me this, would you like me to attach said
file?

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

jg, I was just answering to your request/complain in #2

Comment 6

[u32858]

I now have another email that exhibits this bug, this time from a hotmail email.

shall i attach it? can you replicate this bug from my previous infomation?

JG

Comment 7

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I did not had time to look at it yet but please add another test case, that
could not hurt.

Comment 8

[u32858]

Attachment: testcase, no charset defined

This hotmail email does not have charset defined. It contains Shift_JIS as
hotmail.com never sets the character set for japanese users for some helpful
reason I do not know.

Click reply and nothing will display of the quoted email, click forward and
mozilla will make some noises for about 10 secs then display fine (but with the
single japanese word displayed wrong)

Reply should display the email, it should display ???? for the word it does not
know, as thats what it does when it displays it before I reply.

After Selecting Shift_JIS from the menu I can reply and it will display. So its
just a problem if there is no charset AND japanese or some other language not
american ascii.

JG

Comment 9

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

I can replicate this under a sightly different condition.

If the original message has invalid characters for it's charset, then no quoted
text is included in the reply.

I opened that as bug 132613 as it's not exactly the same description as this bug
and might be due to a different problem.

For bug 132613 too, forward as inline will include the whole content of the message.

Comment 10

[u32858]

This is still present in 2002051013

Is anyone working on a fix for this?
JG

Comment 11

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Nobody is working on this bug as it's reported as unconfirmed.

I think your attachment 71610 [details] _does not_ enable confirmation.
You say there should be some japanese inside it, there is none, only the ascii
character "?".

Also I suspect the problem is the same as in bug 132613, which has been
confirmed, so there will only be a problem in a situation where an incoming mail
is interpreted by Mozilla as shift-JIS without the Content-Type header, has
characters that are invalid in shift-JIS, and you try to reply.
These are reproduction elements that were not available to the QA for confirmation.

Comment 12

[Todd Cohn]

It's been suggested this is fixed by bug 132613, and has had no activity for the
last six months.  Can anyone try this bug again and see if it still is in effect?

Comment 13

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Both testmails WFM.

pi