Re: [Evolution] stability/DavidL

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 10:02 -0700, bg wrote:
> 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

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.

Of course, all formatting is lost (even paragraphing), but if they
didn't send you a well-formatted email, why not return the favour. Works
with forwarding too.