Re: [Evolution] stability/DavidL

[bg <bg fdi us>]

> > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 09:48, David L wrote:
> > > This only happens with
> > > certain emails... these emails get a little dotted box around
> > > the text of the original message whenever I click anywhere
> > > in the message.  Any ideas?
> >
> > bg:
> >
> > I wish I knew an answer to that, but I doubt there is one.
> > As near as I can tell, the dotted-line box is an artifact of
> > the sender, who has chosen to format their message in other
> > than plain old unvarnished ASCII text, apparently in a
> > desire to make their emails "prettier", or perhaps just from
> > general cluelessness.
> >
> > The latter category might benefit from some remediation.
> > The former should just be disemboweled and their messy corpses
> > left in the ditch as a caution to others. Which would include
> > any and all users of "IncrediMail", if it's still around :-)
> >
> > Brewster

Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

> I've found that for multi-part messages, if instead of clicking
> 'Reply' (or 'Reply to all'), you select the text of the message and then
> click the appropriate button, it replies properly to the text, meaning
> no dotted box and no problems formatting. Try it out.

bg:

I did, just now, and it didn't fly. Maybe my version of Evo is
too ancient (a distinct possibility) or maybe I'm not understanding the
instructions. I highlighted the entire block in the original message as
received, and assumed that by "the appropriate button"
you meant "REPLY". Smacking that with the original selected, though
it did shift me, as expected, into REPLY EDIT mode,  did *not*
banish the dotted line box around the text, nor any of the
formatting as near as I could determine.

Brewster

 
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