7789 - Mail compose needs to use InsertAsQuotation and InsertAsCitedQuotation for replies for quoting

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[fenella]

RE: Linux, mac and win32 (1999-06-08-08 m7)
1. Select a mail message from the Inbox folder
2. Click on the Reply button or from Message|Reply
3. Compose window comes up. Type some text in the compose body before or after
the original text.
4. Send the message to yourself
5. Display the reply mail, I cannot tell which text came from the original mail.
Actual result: No quote to identify the original text
Expect result: Like Nova, a blue vertical bar is displayed in the first column
of each line of the original text.
This occurs on all platforms.

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

Seems like this issue revolves around the blockquote discussion which was
happening in the newsgroup. Reassigning to akkana.

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

We have InsertAsQuotation and InsertAsCitedQuotation in the editor app core.
The mail compose window is not using them for replies.  Reassigning.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

Note: when fixing this and verifying, need to check for both plain text mail
compose and html mail compose.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

Changing summary from "Need a way to identify text that is from 'reply'" to
"Mail compose needs to use InsertAsQuotation and InsertAsCitedQuotation for
replies for quoting"

Comment 5

[lchiang]

<Will have to release note this for M7.>

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Text is correctly quoted now (M7). The only problem left is that the left border of the qoted section isn't draw in
blue. It's a css matter that we should fix for M8.

Comment 7

[lchiang]

The blue quoted line appearing in the compose window should be a separate bug
then.  Will need to verify that the quoted lines are there for html compose and
plain text compose after replying to a message and sending.

Comment 8

[fenella]

Win32, Mac and Linux (1999-06-18-08 m7)
I verify that this problem has  been fixed
Please refer to bug 8508 for blue quoted line in the compose window