147079 - Need quotation REFERENCE

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70478

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Smith]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0rc3)
Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052305

The standard for quotations in most mailers is to preface the block of text with 
"SoandSo wrote:..."
or some similar acknowledgment of the author.  This is especially important when
you're quoting from an email from one person in an email to ANOTHER person.

The "Paste as quotation" doesn't offer this feature.  Please included EITHER a
"Quote" button (as most mailers provide) or a dynamic lookup of the SOURCE of
the quotation when using "Paste as quotation".


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.copy text from previous email
2.use "Paste as Quotation" feature

Comment 1

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Reporter, how is this supposed to work? Paste as quotation takes it from the
clipboard (or however this is called on various systems). There is no "source"
to look at.

Or do you refer to "quote original message"? Please clarify.

Over to Mail Window Front end (which has "quote original message").

pi

Comment 2

[Chris Smith]

I wasn't sure if the "paste as quotation" was simply a clipboard paste.  Good
point.  Perhaps one would need to implement a "copy as quotation" in the source
window instead, so that that function could pick up sender and even add ">"
quotation marks in the clipboard (requiring a simple paste in destination window).

Alternatively, you can mark this as a duplicate of 70478 (sorry; my Bugzilla
searches on "quote", "quotation", and even "quote original message" didn't turn
it up, but finally found it via newsgroup search).  Bummer it didn't make it
into 1.0RC3.

Comment 3

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70478 ***

Comment 4

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

verified dup