Re: [Evolution] Replies to text + html e-mail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 07:08 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 18:54 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 18:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 15:28 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > I only send text/plain e-mail.  But I get lots of text/plain + text/html
> > > > messages.  But when I go to reply to these messages Evolution still
> > > > seems to be replying to the text/html part and not the text/plain part;
> > > > for instance quoting is weird, occasionally there are unremovable blank
> > > > lines, etc...  Editing the reply message can be frustrating.  Is there a
> > > > setting to reply using the text/plain part?
> > > Do you have Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->HTML Messages->HTML
> > > Mode set to Prefer Plain?
> >
> > It is set to Only-ever-show-PLAIN
>
> I can confirm the OP's situation, it does not seem possible to specify
> that your reply email to an email with HTML be in plain text. I'm using
> 'Prefer Plain' myself, and I resort to copy-pasting the contents of the
> mail into a newly composed mail. In my case, the combination of a dark
> theme with white words and users who email me with white backgrounds
> makes some of my replies 'typing blind'.

If there's a multipart/alternative part in plain text, then the reply
can also be plain. If the original is only in HTML I think the reply is
forced to HTML, which could be viewed as a bug. We do want to encourage
the use of plain text after all :-)

I'd suggest Bugzilla for this.

poc