142614 - Forwarding mail dropped URL queoted in "< ... >"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 172808

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Joe Chou]

When forwarding an email, which contains a URL, "<http://www.xxxx.com>", the
whole "<...>" was somehow dropped. After furter testing, I found out that
anything queoted in "<...>" would be dropped in a forwarded message. 

This problem exists in moz099 (should also be in trunk and moz1.0), on both
Windows and Unix. But the problem does not occur in 4.7x. So it looks like a
regression.

How to reproduce the problem:
1) Bring up mail in mozilla by clicking the mail icon.
2) First send yourself an email with something quoeted in "<...>", for example,
   "<http://your_pay_check.com>".
3) After received the email, try to forward it by clicking the Forward button.
   In the message being forwarded, you will see the whole string is missing.

Comment 1

[Srilatha Moturi]

over to Jean-Francois. 

Comment 2

[esther]

I can't reproduce this with branch build 20020503 on winxp. 
Plain text msg send, plain text message forward both Inline and as Attachment.
HTML message send, html message forward both as Inline and as Attachment.
Reporter, are you fowarding as attachment, if so you won't see the original
message body during composition, but it does get sent to recipient.  

Comment 3

[Margaret Chan]

This looks like 126953.

Comment 4

[Joe Chou]

Esher, 
No, I just forwarded an email which contained a line, "<...>", and that line was
missing when received. I tried it on Win2000. Just try to send an email with
only the following line and see what happens:
<Hi there>




 



Margaret,
This one has some similarity with 126953, but also has some differences. This
one does not need to set inline, and the missing part is in the queots, not
before or after.

Comment 5

[Joe Chou]

Esher,
I meant just send youself an email with one line: 
<Hi there>

And then forward that email. See what happens.

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

We have a known bug where html tags in a message body text are interpreted when
forwarding inline. That's probably what append here!

Comment 7

[Michelle Lei]

You have to use mozilla to BOTH send the original mail and forward the mail. If 
you use other mail client like NS4.7x or outlook to send the original mail, but 
mozilla to forward the mail, you won't see the bug. 

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 173764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 175341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[esther]

I see this and will try to find the bug ducarroz is mentioning.

Comment 11

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172808 ***

Comment 12

[Vedran Miletic]

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