When selecting part of an HTML email and replying only to that part, Evolution removes line breaks

[Oded Arbel]

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution has a great feature where you can reply to a small part of an email by selecting only the needed part and using the reply function. This works very well for plain text emails, but for HTML emails the selected part becomes the quoted part of a new HTML email, but all the line breaks of the original message (new lines, <br/> tags) are stripped off so you see the original email as one long line - regardless of how many lines or paragraphs the selected text contains.

This makes replying to long HTML messages a tedious process where I have to debate if I rather select the text I want to reply to and then spend time putting back the line breaks where I remember them to be, or just reply to everything and edit away what I don't need.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 16 11:58:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.27.92-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

[Oded Arbel (oded-geek)]

Opened upstream bug report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595339 (GNOME bug #595339)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks. Linking the upstream bug to the project.

[Oded Arbel (oded-geek)]

The upstream bug was resolved as duplicate of bug 650645

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2009. Version not more supported.
change status to invalid.