88830 - Email "Reply" does not preserve tabs, "Forward" preserves

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144230

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062823

When I recieve message with tabulation symbols in the message text, these
symbols are not preserved when I click "Reply", but are preserved when I click
"Forward" button.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new email message and type in the message body (without star delimiters):
***********************
tab
    - text
space, tab
    - text
2 spaces, tab
    - text
3 spaces, tab
    - text
7 spaces, tab
    - text
8 spaces, tab
    - text
***********************
Instead of spaces before "- text" string type number of spaces and tabs,
specified on previos line.
2.Send the message to yourself.
3.Receive the message
4. Choose the message, click "Reply"
5. Choose the message, click "Forward"


Actual Results:  Step 4 - tabs are replaced by spaces.
Step 5 - tabs are preserved.

Expected Results:  Tabs from the original message should be preserved.

I have settings to compose email in text, forward messages inline, 
when I reply previous message is quoted with using ">".

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

using branch build 2001070206 win98 and mac I see this problem too. confirming 
and changing os to all 

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 3

[sarahkniel]

is there no solution`??????
sk

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

> I have settings to compose email in text, forward messages inline, 
> when I reply previous message is quoted with using ">".

related to bug 1185043?

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

It's a dupe of bug 144230, but by popular demand I'm looking at improving the situation in bug 1377836.