183134 - When quoting mail in a plain text reply, extra quoted line is erroneously added

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 115498

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[brendan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

It's easy enough to illustrate by example.  My friend writes a one line mail,
and I do a one line reply.  In composition, I ensure that only a single line of
his message is quoted, but my reply (in plain text) turns out like this:

My Friend wrote: 

>so what were you trying to say? 
> 

i was saying this


.... As you can see, an extra line with a ">" was added, even though I
explicitly got rid of it in the composer view.

(It makes Mozilla quoting really ugly, especially compared to the nice job
Outlook does of it.)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As described

Actual Results:  
My Friend wrote: 

>so what were you trying to say? 
> 

i was saying this

Expected Results:  
My Friend wrote: 

>so what were you trying to say? 

i was saying this

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

is this html mail? If yes: duplicate of bug 115498

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

summary says "plain text"  - sorry.

Comment 3

[Brian Rogers]

"Plain text" could just mean that the e-mail was sent as plain text.  He didn't
specifically say that he was using plaintext composer.

Reporter, when you write a message or reply from your mail account, do you have
an insert and format menu in the compose window?

Comment 4

[brendan]

Yes, even though I was replying to a plain text message, I had insert and format
menu options.  

I have tried to find a way to edit as plain text instead, but can not find the
option.  How can I do this?

Comment 5

[Brian Rogers]

Then you are using the HTML Composer, which by default will send as plaintext if
you have no formatting, or ask what to do if you do.  That makes this a dup of
bug 115498.

To use plaintext composer, which does not suffer from this bug, check out "Mail
& Newsgroup Settings" in the edit menu of Mail/News and uncheck "Compose
messages in HTML format" for your account.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115498 ***

Comment 6

[Vedran Miletic]

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