278397 - Reply Quoting -- Add limit to number of levels of quotes

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[John R. Mishanski Jr.]

When replying to a message, a user preference currently allows the original
message to be quoted and inserted into the compose textarea automatically.  When
several e-mails are traded between two people using the reply feature, several
levels of quotes can appear.  Consider this scenario:

1.  User a, sends a message to user b
2.  User b replies
3.  User a replies to user b's reply
4.  User b sends a final reply to user a.  This reply contains quoted text from
the messages in steps 1, 2, and 3.

At step 4, User b's message has 3 levels of quotes from the previous messages. 
It seems to be general and accepted practice to return only the most recent
quoted message by manually deleting the other levels of quotes which existed in
previous replies.

This request for enhancement is for a preference to set a numeric limit on the
number of levels of quotes inserted in replies.  For instance, a limit of 1
would cause the following behavior: at step 4 in this scenario would ensure that
only the new text added in step 3 is the only text that is quoted, text quoted
from steps 1 and 2 are discarded.

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

You could always snip of course...

Confirming RFE

Comment 2

[Chitu Okoli]

This request is very similar to the functionality provided by the "NestedQuote Remover" extension: http://www.achimonline.de/mozext/nestedquoteremover_about.php.

One other suggestion I request in addition to this is the option for zero quote levels--that is, the option to reply without the "> " trailer on each line, which I consider a huge annoyance.

Comment 3

[Chitu Okoli]

The RealBorders extension at http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/realborders-en.html now includes the option of stripping the > mark in plain text replies. But it only gives the option of level-zero quotes, that is, not quotes at all--which is just what I wanted.

(In reply to comment #2)
> This request is very similar to the functionality provided by the "NestedQuote
> Remover" extension:
> http://www.achimonline.de/mozext/nestedquoteremover_about.php.
> 
> One other suggestion I request in addition to this is the option for zero quote
> levels--that is, the option to reply without the "> " trailer on each line,
> which I consider a huge annoyance.
> 

Comment 4

[Dirk Schoettler]

Hello,

I have come to the same point (Aren't there really no more Bugzilla entries about that?):
There are different colored quote levels when reading a mail, which makes it a lot easier. But when replying that same message, it turns into a big unreadable (single-colored) text - no matter who replied to whom.
Can't view and edit mode be handled equally?

Comment 5

[Dirk Schoettler]

Hello,

is there any possibility to have *different* colors for reply levels in the editor pane - instead of simply blue for all quotes?

Or is there at least a corresponding Bugzilla entry?

(I'm still with TB 1.5.)

Comment 6

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #2)
> that is, the option to reply without the "> " trailer on each line,
> which I consider a huge annoyance.

Duplicate of Core bug 105456?

(In reply to comment #3)
> But it only gives the option of
> level-zero quotes, that is, not quotes at all

See Core bug 71583 for deleting only some quote levels.

(In reply to comment #5)
> is there any possibility to have *different* colors for reply levels in the
> editor pane - instead of simply blue for all quotes?

Duplicate of bug 368454?