283048 - Only part of the message (until signature delimiter "-- \n") is quoted when replying on message

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Sander Goudswaard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows XP)

When replying on a message, only the first 750 lines are quoted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a digest email
2. Reply


Actual Results:  
Only the first 750 lines are shown.

Expected Results:  
Quote the entire message.

In this case, a reply to the last message of a digest was intended (so the rest
of the quoted text would be removed manually). However, Tbird does not show this
message.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

wfm with a current Mozilla trunk build (it uses the same backend as Thunderbird)
with the Plaintext Editor and the HTML Editor.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Anyway is this digest message available somewhere in the web? Or could you
forward it to me (as attachment of course ;)?

Comment 3

[Art Ellison]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows XP)
> 
> When replying on a message, only the first 750 lines are quoted.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Open a digest email
> 2. Reply
> 
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Only the first 750 lines are shown.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Quote the entire message.
> 
> In this case, a reply to the last message of a digest was intended (so the rest
> of the quoted text would be removed manually). However, Tbird does not show this
> message.


I can readily reproduce this action.  The signature delimiter "--" is what is
cutting off the rest of the original message.  I have that problem in replying
to digests of messages.  

Art

Comment 4

[Stephen Eickhoff]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> I can readily reproduce this action.  The signature delimiter "--" is what is
> cutting off the rest of the original message.  I have that problem in replying
> to digests of messages.  

I have confirmed this problem.  I am on a mailing list in which one of the most
frequent posters uses a double hyphen "--" above his sig.  Tbird 1.0 and 1.0.2
will cut off the reply text here every time.

Comment 5

[Max Alekseyev]

Confirming on Mozilla/linux build 20050612
A sample digest message is proved.

Comment 6

[Max Alekseyev]

Attachment: Sample digest message

Comment 7

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Judging by attachment 187237 [details], this "bug" is intended behaviour.
When replying, Mozilla cuts off the sig (starting with the sig delimiter
"-- \n", ending at the message end).
It is the duty of the message digest compiler to invalidate sigs.

Comment 8

[Sander Goudswaard]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Judging by attachment 187237 [details] [edit], this "bug" is intended behaviour.
> When replying, Mozilla cuts off the sig (starting with the sig delimiter
> "-- \n", ending at the message end).
> It is the duty of the message digest compiler to invalidate sigs.

It may be their duty, but it is also the duty of a website builder not to
include spaces in mailto links. Tb was changed to deal with that as well. Not
fixing this issue basically prevents lots of people from using Tb to read
mailing lists because the digest compilers apparently often do *not* invalidate
sigs that are according to the sig specs.