** Changed in: gtkhtml3.14
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288185
Title:
Evolution plain-text email includes formatting "stuff" - should be
pure plain text
Status in Evolution:
Invalid
Status in gtkhtml3.14:
Won't Fix
Status in gtkhtml3.14 package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: evolution
If a user sets their preferences to use/prefer plain-text email, then
all new emails and all replies should be pure plain-text - no
formatting boxes, no formatting choices, etc. Plain text is plain
text.
Instead, when I reply to certain emails, there are formatting boxes
present in the reply - those boxes with "dotted line edges". These
contain the quoted reply. They shouldn't be there!!! And they make it
extremely difficult edit a reply properly.
With plain text selected, there should be the "X wrote Y on D" header,
the quoted reply (>... with an intelligent line length limit, e.g.,
72), and any auto-inserted signature. And they should all be plain
text lines.
In other words, I should be able to insert new lines and new text
anywhere I want: After the header, in the middle of the quoted test,
before the signature, etc.
But I cannot, because evolution appears to be trying to be helpful and
is missing the mark.
This makes it somewhere between aggravatingly inconvenient and
impossible to format replies as I want, in other words, to achieve
proper emphasis, to rearrange text conveniently for readability, etc.
(On a possibly related note, I used to be able to use ctrl-L to go
reflow quoted text and it would do the right thing - that has
disappeared. Are these related directions?)
Every time I encounter this aggravation I seriously consider going to
Mutt, despite its configuration complexity problems, or, worse, pine,
which was quite a good MUA, despite its licensing challenges. The
calendar and contacts integration is keeping me on evolution, but I'm
not sure how long that will last.
This is not a wishlist item, this is a usability and accessibility
issue: If a user chooses and prefers plain text, give them plain text.
(I've trolled the help and all preferences to make sure I am not
missing anything, to ensure I have plain-text selected everywhere I
need to, because this is extremely aggravating and is a serious - I'm
not kidding! - productivity issue.)
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