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. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
