Reply.. does not pick up all of message
I have found that with version 2.1 (perhaps it happened before but did not notice)when I reply to a message (email or in this group) not all of the original message is captured and displayed in my new email Is this a settings thing.. or?? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Reply.. does not pick up all of message
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:26:21 -0700, /Ralph/: I have found that with version 2.1 (perhaps it happened before but did I guess you've meant version 2.0.1, but 2.1 snapshots should be the same. not notice)when I reply to a message (email or in this group) not all of the original message is captured and displayed in my new email Is this a settings thing.. or?? If you've selected part of the original message only this part will be quoted. Remove the selection from the original message view prior replying to quote the whole message. -- Stanimir ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Reply.. does not pick up all of message
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:26:21 -0700, /Ralph/: I have found that with version 2.1 (perhaps it happened before but did I guess you've meant version 2.0.1, but 2.1 snapshots should be the same. not notice)when I reply to a message (email or in this group) not all of the original message is captured and displayed in my new email Is this a settings thing.. or?? If you've selected part of the original message only this part will be quoted. Remove the selection from the original message view prior replying to quote the whole message. Thanks for the reply.. You are right about 2.0.1.. sorry I think I have found what is causing my problem. It seems that -- marks that SM puts above the name of the sender or perhaps part of the signature causes SM to NOT include anything past that point. Thus in this response your -- Stanimir is not included. So... if someone replies and the signature or name is above any previous text it will not show as part of the response. This seems to a be a new issue that I have not noticed before. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Reply.. does not pick up all of message
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:40:25 -0700, /Ralph/: I think I have found what is causing my problem. It seems that -- marks that SM puts above the name of the sender or perhaps part of the signature causes SM to NOT include anything past that point. Thus in this response your -- Stanimir is not included. So... if someone replies and the signature or name is above any previous text it will not show as part of the response. This seems to a be a new issue that I have not noticed before. This is a long lasting convention in mail and news on the Internet (just do some search for standard sig delimiter) and it is by no means a new behavior - it is like this at least since I'm using the Mozilla Suite (somewhere around the 0.9.2 version). As signatures bring no value to the matter of a certain topic they are automatically stripped from the quoted text on reply, when marked using the standard delimiter. If the signature is not marked using the standard delimiter, it is responsibility of the replier to strip that part (and other irrelevant to the reply parts) from the quotes. To indicate the author of the original text there are attribution lines at the beginning of quotes. If for whatever reason you want to quote a signature - just do it manually by copy-pasting it from the original message. -- Stanimir ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Reply.. does not pick up all of message
On 12/26/2009 12:40 PM, Ralph wrote: Thanks for the reply.. You are right about 2.0.1.. sorry I think I have found what is causing my problem. It seems that -- marks that SM puts above the name of the sender or perhaps part of the signature causes SM to NOT include anything past that point. Thus in this response your -- Stanimir is not included. So... if someone replies and the signature or name is above any previous text it will not show as part of the response. This seems to a be a new issue that I have not noticed before. Perhaps you haven't noticed it, but it is not new - not by a long shot. The characters you are referring to are called the Signature Delimiter. This consists, actually, of three characters, plus a line terminator. The three characters are dash, dash and space. The line terminator means these characters must be on a line by themselves (not preceded or followed with any other characters). Any proper e-mail/news client should treat the content after the signature delimiter as a signature, and thus not part of the actual message. In message clients that I use, it does two things differently with signature blocks: 1. It shows the signature information in a stippled/grayed-out text, so it's easy to see it's not part of the message, and; 2. It strips the signature block from the message when replying, as the signature is not really part of the original message, it doesn't need to be included in the reply. I'll include a signature below, so you can see what I mean. I hope this helps. -- Well, this is my signature block. It would normally just include my name or perhaps a pithy quote. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Reply.. does not pick up all of message
Ralph wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:26:21 -0700, /Ralph/: /snip/ Thanks for the reply.. You are right about 2.0.1.. sorry I think I have found what is causing my problem. It seems that -- marks that SM puts above the name of the sender or perhaps part of the signature causes SM to NOT include anything past that point. Thus in this response your -- Stanimir is not included. So... if someone replies and the signature or name is above any previous text it will not show as part of the response. This seems to a be a new issue that I have not noticed before. Its called a signature, or sig delimiter, and that is its exact purpose. Its consists of two dashes and a space (hence your example above does not work) and it informs the newsreader that any material after it is aig file and is not to included in the quote. This is to avoid the problem of having multiple sigs, which rarely have anything to do with the thread, reposted over and over again for no real reason. Note, this only works with bottom posted sigs. If you set your sig to posted other then at the bottom, SeaMonkey will not add the delimiter. Lee ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Reply.. does not pick up all of message
Ralph wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:26:21 -0700, /Ralph/: I have found that with version 2.1 (perhaps it happened before but did I guess you've meant version 2.0.1, but 2.1 snapshots should be the same. not notice)when I reply to a message (email or in this group) not all of the original message is captured and displayed in my new email Is this a settings thing.. or?? If you've selected part of the original message only this part will be quoted. Remove the selection from the original message view prior replying to quote the whole message. Thanks for the reply.. You are right about 2.0.1.. sorry I think I have found what is causing my problem. It seems that -- marks that SM puts above the name of the sender or perhaps part of the signature causes SM to NOT include anything past that point. Thus in this response your -- Stanimir is not included. So... if someone replies and the signature or name is above any previous text it will not show as part of the response. This seems to a be a new issue that I have not noticed before. When as signature -- mark stop you to reply with all the text under ... you can include all the text when replying by first doing Select all then reply. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Reply.. does not pick up all of message
Ralph wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:26:21 -0700, /Ralph/: I have found that with version 2.1 (perhaps it happened before but did I guess you've meant version 2.0.1, but 2.1 snapshots should be the same. not notice)when I reply to a message (email or in this group) not all of the original message is captured and displayed in my new email Is this a settings thing.. or?? If you've selected part of the original message only this part will be quoted. Remove the selection from the original message view prior replying to quote the whole message. Thanks for the reply.. You are right about 2.0.1.. sorry I think I have found what is causing my problem. It seems that -- marks that SM puts above the name of the sender or perhaps part of the signature causes SM to NOT include anything past that point. Thus in this response your -- Stanimir is not included. So... if someone replies and the signature or name is above any previous text it will not show as part of the response. This seems to a be a new issue that I have not noticed before. Thanks to all that replied.. I had not noticed it before and it only became an issue on a response I wanted to make where my original text was below this signature.. and consequently was not included in my reply ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
