177703 - When replying, text attachments are quoted with the original message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161775

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Pavel Andreev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

As a support engineer, I often receive messages with huge text attachments. I am
not a Mozilla guru and I have found no way to not quote these attachments when
replying. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a one-megabyte text file, trace.txt
2. Send yourself a short message and attach trace.txt to it
3. Receive the message and hit Reply
4. Delete quoted contents of trace.txt and answer the remaining short message

Actual Results:  
With my 600Mhz P3, it takes about 30 seconds of 100% CPU utilization to generate
the reply, then I select all the lines of the quoted attachments by hitting
Shift-Ctrl-End and it takes another 30 seconds to delete them.

Expected Results:  
I would like Mozilla not to quote any attachments when replying. The behavior
could be user-configurable, with choices like "Always quote", "Never quote",
"Ask" or "Ask if the attachment is larger than xxx"

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Mozilla automatically display inline attachment event their are specified not to
be. I think it's ok when displaying the message but when replying, we should
repect the content-disposition header of the attachment. That will prevent
quoting  real attachment.

Comment 2

[Todd Cohn]

Confirming bug and agreeing with reporter's suggestion.  :-)

Comment 3

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

see also http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161775

what's new about this ?

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 244425 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161775 ***