272978 - composing a reply removes original message body begining with 2 dashes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216678

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Andy Wozniak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Someone sent me an email where a portion of the message body begins with -- (2
dashes), as part of a simple "text" table.

When I compose a reply, all text "after" the -- is removed and does not appear
in my message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compose an email with 2 dashes (beginning of line) within message body
2. send email to myself
3. recieve the email
4. compose a reply message
5. original message text, up to the 2 dashes, appears in the compose window
6. all original message test "after" the 2 dashes is gone

Actual Results:  
see step #6 above

Expected Results:  
Expected to see all or the original message text within the reply compose window.

I understand that -- is used to delimit a signature and that signature removal
in a reply might be useful.

But, if I am unaware of this feature, then when I compose a reply, it may NOT be
immediately evident that original text (after the --) was removed.

There appears to be NO WORKAROUND for this.

Also. I notice that whenever I compose a new email, my signature is always
preceeded by --.  I recall NOT seeing this in earlier Thunderbird release??!

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

POP3? IMAP? Or Both?

Comment 2

[Andy Wozniak]

tbird is configured for POP3 operation

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

As a result of great "signature removal feature", Bug 120644 is already opened
and this is same problem as you, although the bug is signature text case but
yours is non-signature text case.
DUPing or not is up to you.

Comment 4

[Andy Wozniak]

I would prefer to maintain the specifics of this bug instead of closing it as a
duplicate.

Unlike signature removal, the removal of message text is a big annoyance.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I just WFM'd bug 120644.  Note that the dupe is a request for enhancement.

Messages with non-sig content below the sig-separator are malformed.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216678 ***