Re: [Evolution] Weird "message box" in Yahoo! messages

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 08:38 +0300, Razvan Deaconescu wrote:
> Hi!
> Messages I receive from a Yahoo! account that's sending them as HTML
> messages are always wrapped in some weird message box that's preventing
> me from doing inline posting. I've configured Evolution to format
> messages as "Plain text" (see link[1]); formatting it as HTML is even
> worse (see link[2]). Please note that this doesn't happen on other HTML
> messages (from GMail, for example) or Yahoo! plain text messages.
> The only workaround I've found is to copy&paste the message into an
> editor, then copy it back and manually insert quotation marks (>).

<rant>
+1  Yep, this is pretty much my only gripe with recent versions of
Evolution [pretty much everything else works perfectly].  But even if I
pick text-only for replies I end up editing [or more like wrestling
with] the *#&@*(@# HTML edition of the message I am responding to.

For crying out loud why isn't there just a conver-to-text button.  I
have to highlight, select preformatted, then select normal, then edit in
quoting... it is really annoying.  And why do I end up with blank lines
in the e-mail that simply cannot be deleted at all by any means?
</rant>

> Is there a "proper" way to do this? Can Evolution be configured to
> render these messages so that it would be easy to do inline posting
> without the copy&paste overhead?

Copy the text to gedit, edit it, copy it back.  I wonder if it would be
possible to create a plugin that would invoke gedit's editor?
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