262207 - Reply to does not quote the entire message.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201581

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Kerstetter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040925

In Mozilla Mail and Thundebird for the Mac (OS X): The message gets quoted down
to the first signature of the sender. This sort of makes the tool pretty much
uselss. I send always in text, never html. This does not appears to happen as
often if someone sends to me in text. But it always happens in html. Sometimes
it is hard to tell if they sent in HTML or maybe rich text.  This is a show
stopper. Make the product pretty useless for high volume replies. Going back
Mail.app.  If this has been reported, sorry. I looked and could not find it. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup option to quote the text for reply
2. Open message
3. Use reply button.

Actual Results:  
Ah, does not select the entire message. This is pretty a show stopper for the
mozilla email products. Mozilla mail does the same thing.

Expected Results:  
Select the entire message.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The behavior of stripping everything from the default sig-separator onwards is 
not going to change.  

Is your correspondent (the person who sends you the mail that causes a problem) 
using Mozilla (or TB) or some other program?  If Mozilla is configured to reply 
with "My text above the quote" and "My sig above the quote" it leaves the 
default sig-separator off to avoid this problem.  Maybe there's a configuration 
on their end that will likewise avoid the problem.

Comment 2

[Bob Kerstetter]

(In reply to comment #1)

So TB tries to quote the most recent correspondence, not the entire message? Correct?

Comment 3

[Christian Eyrich]

(In reply to comment #2)

> So TB tries to quote the most recent correspondence, not the entire message?
Correct?

TB quotes what it sees as message text. I.e. everything before the signature.
If some dumb client puts a signature (separator) in the middle of the body,
that's the senders fault.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201581 ***