232950 - mail forward: greater than character is transformed in grey bar

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Daniel Förderer]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

if you write a mail with mozilla mail with a '>' character in it, it will be
transfered and shown properly (again In mozilla). but if you forward this mail
(in mozilla) and the recipient opens it and reads it with mozilla he sees a
vertical grey bar instead of the '>'.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. write a mail to yourself with mozilla with a '>' in it. 
2. open it with mozilla 
3. forward it to yourself with mozilla
4. open the forwarded mail with mozilla


Actual Results:  
the '>' has mutated in a grey bar!

Expected Results:  
the '>' shoud have kept to be a '>'.

Comment 1

[Daniel Förderer]

Attachment: mail with greater than character

Comment 2

[Daniel Förderer]

Attachment: forwarded mail with grey bar

Comment 3

[Samir L. Boulema]

Works correctly with Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20040128)

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Daniel Förderer:  The '>' character, as you probably know, is used in reply 
emails to indicate that text has been quoted from the original mail.  Mozilla 
has a feature to display a paragraph preceded with '>' into a paragraph marked 
with a single, unbroken bar.  Any message with a line beginning with one or more 
quoting characters like that will display the bars.

I'm assuming that the messages you're complaining about are using the '>' 
character for some purpose other than quoting.

You can turn this off, if you like.  The preference:
  mail.quoted_graphical
can be set to false, which will turn off this sort of quoting for many, but not 
all messages.  

If a message has been composed using "format=flowed" (which Mozilla does by 
default -- see bug 168420), the vertical bar will still be used for quoted text 
in some situations.  The FAQ at the referenced bug includes information on 
turning off f=f support.  Note that turning this off will interfere with the 
correct display of a lot more messages than leaving it on will.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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