Re: [Evolution] Truncating threads when replying to mail

[Craig Hartnett <craig 1410 spamslip com>]

On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 11:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 03:21 -0800, Craig Hartnett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 12:10 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 02:40 -0800, Craig Hartnett wrote:
> > > > After some research I realised that I think this is happening when a
> > > > message I receive has a signature (with the "-- " demarcation) that is
> > > > placed immediately *below* the most recent reply, but *above* the
> > > > previous messages. Evolution thinks that the whole thread of messages
> > > > below the signature is part of the signature, and truncates accordingly.
> > >
> > > This has happened several times to me so I told those people quoting
> > > text below their signature that they should fix their broken mail
> > > clients by moving their signature at the very end, after any quotes.
> >
> > Good point, but even Evolution has an option to "Keep signature above
> > the original message on replying" (Edit | Preferences | Composer
> > Preferences | General | Replies and Forwards), although I don't use it
> > myself.
>
> This is a feature for people who have other needs, e.g. for business,
> were even top posting and HTML is wide spread. It's not the default for
> Evolution or any other MUA I ever used or tested on Linux.
>
> On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 02:40 -0800, Craig Hartnett wrote:
> > However, something that has just started within the last couple of
> > days is that when I reply to some (not all) emails, only the most
> > recent message in the thread is quoted. This is frustrating to say the
> > least, as I (of course) want all of the previous messages to remain
> > intact.
>
> You can quote everything if you reply to your friends, business partners
> etc., but please never miss to trim mails, if you reply to a mailing
> list or when replying off-list to mailing list members.

OK, thanks. So, back to my original question: Is there anywhere that I
can control this reply-and-truncate behaviour of Evolution, preferably
on a per-reply basis, but possibly globally?

Anyone have an answer to *that*? Thanks.


Craig