306030 - A line that begins with the string "From " is given a spurious quote prefix.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121947

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Andy Morgan-Richards]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.6 (20050716)

When composing a new message, a line that begins with the string "From " is
given a spurious quote prefix.  For example, if you compose a message containing
the line "From what you've said, I infer that you're a machine", the quote
prefix, '>', is inserted at the start of the line.  For the bug (feature?) to be
exhibited, it seems that the string (including the trailing space) must match
exactly at the start of a line (eg, "from", "FRom" and "fromage" don't exhibit
the problem).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Invoke the "New Message" command (Message | New Message).
2. In the message body, enter a line of text that begins with the string "From
".  (Something inane and gung-ho such as "From the halls of Montezuma ..." works
just fine.)
3. After completing the required fields, invoke the File | Send Later command.

Actual Results:  
The line of the message body that begins with "From " now has a '>' prefix.

Expected Results:  
It should not have inserted the spurious '>' at the start of the line.

Comment 1

[u63580]

WFM, TB Alpha 2 version 1.0+ (20050825)

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

Maybe it's already fixed, but the original bug report for this is still open. 
Resolving as a duplicate of said report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121947 ***