Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.28.1: Incorrect quoting of text emails

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

I got no joy about this so I opened an issue for it:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/86

A fix would be lovely; this is actually causing me some pain.  Even
just a verification that others see it (it's pretty simple to
reproduce) would be nice.

Cheers!


On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 18:10 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Hi all; I recently upgraded my system to Ubuntu 18.04 which provides
> Evolution 3.28.1 (from Evolution 3.26).
>
> I've noticed an annoying issue: quoting of quoted messages is broken
> when replying to plain text email in HTML mode.  For example if I
> receive a plain text email and it includes some quoted text like
> this:
>
> ------------------------
> > here is a quote
>
> and here is a response
> ------------------------
>
> and I reply to this message with my composer preference set to HTML
> mode, then the composer shows a response where the quoted text is at
> the same quoting level as the normal text.  That is, instead of:
>
> ------------------------
> > > here is a quote
> >
> > and here is a response
>
> ------------------------
>
> I just get (in HTML of course):
>
> ------------------------
> > here is a quote
> >
> > and here is a response
>
> ------------------------
>
> And this is true no matter how many levels of quoting there are in
> theoriginal email, everything is reduced to a single
> level.  Converting this message to plain text doesn't fix it.
>
> If I'm replying to an HTML email, quoting works properly.
>
> If I change my composer preference to disable HTML by default, then
> it all works properly: the plain text reply has all the correct
> quoting.  If I convert the message to HTML it keeps the correct
> quoting.
>
> Has anyone else run into this with Evolution 3.28?
>
> Cheers!