327008 - Mail Reply truncates quoted messages below first prior signature.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201581

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Dick Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060208 SeaMonkey/1.5a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060208 SeaMonkey/1.5a

When I Reply to a mail message which quotes older messages, all older messages under my prior signature fail to get quoted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply to a message which quotes a chain of older messages.
2. Look for oldest quoted message in the Compose window's draft Reply.
3. Following my own sign-off in a quoted prior message, all has been truncated.

Actual Results:  
Older quotes are not quoted in the draft reply.

Expected Results:  
ALL older quotes (entire prior message) should remain in the draft reply.

I believe that this has been a problem in recent months, but probably not years. In my previous use of Netscape and Mozilla Suite, I didn't expect Reply to truncate older messages. I don't know whether early SeaMonkey versions kept those quoted messages or not.

BTW, why does Bugzilla have no component category for Mail Compose (not Composer)?

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Possibly it's because some signature delimiter like "-- " is used. Everything below such a delimiter is seen as signature, but normally such a signature delimiter is either skipped by mailclients or should be quoted with > like normal text so it does not have any effect.

Comment 2

[Dick Miller]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Possibly it's because some signature delimiter like "-- " is used. Everything
> below such a delimiter is seen as signature, but normally such a signature
> delimiter is either skipped by mailclients or should be quoted with > like
> normal text so it does not have any effect.

Yes, I do use that standard "-- " delimiter in my signature file. And yes, I think the behavior should be as you describe.

Indeed it USED to permit quoted messages below there to remain. BTW, I get this truncation even when I set Replies to Start Below Quote, Signature Below My Reply.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Indeed it USED to permit quoted messages below there to remain. BTW, I get
> this truncation even when I set Replies to Start Below Quote, Signature Below
> My Reply.

It's truncating on whatever sig it found -- probably not yours, but your correspondent's.  If you're using Reply Above Quote / Sig Below Reply, Mozilla doesn't include the sig-separator, in order to try to avoid exactly this problem.  I don't think there's been a change in behavior here since around Mozilla 1.4/1.5, over two years ago.

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